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Offline AKIron

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« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2004, 09:05:21 AM »
Anytime you visit a site and when it tells you that you must install their plugin to view or download and you say yes, you likely just installed a ****load of spyware. Most of the time when you download and install "free" software from the Internet, it is accompanied by spyware.
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« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2004, 09:29:20 AM »
One Christmas several years ago I had friends and family over for dinner. The kids gravitated to the computer. My brother came to me and asked to talk with me in private. Everytime someone opened IE it opened to a porn site! I had been having some probems up to that point but couldn't figure them out. YES INDEED it was spyware. Some of it had even reconfigured my bios! I installed one of the free spyware elimainating programs and was rather surprised at the amount of junk deposited on my computer. Now I use it regularly. I also have my system configured to ask me before accepting cookies. This too has helped. Try one of the mentioned programs and you'lll wonder how you lived without them. The US legislature has been considering a bill making spyware illegal. Maybe we should make the internet illegal (j/k kinda)
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« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2004, 10:38:02 AM »
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Originally posted by AKIron
Anytime you visit a site and when it tells you that you must install their plugin to view or download and you say yes, you likely just installed a ****load of spyware. Most of the time when you download and install "free" software from the Internet, it is accompanied by spyware.


Thanks for that info.  I'm starting to really hate sharing my PC.  :mad:
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« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2004, 11:02:37 AM »
Actually, depending on how you have security set in Internet Explorer, there are sites that can quietly download spyware on your computer, without your knowledge.
The default security setting Internet Explorer uses leaves your computer wide open for little programs to plant files and read data from your computer.
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Offline JB66

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« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2004, 11:16:14 AM »
After you install adaware make sure you update it to the latest signature.  They update this program almost daily.
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Offline Lazer

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« Reply #20 on: May 14, 2004, 11:21:08 AM »
Immunize kiddies, use SpyBot and delete everything, I have never had anything come back to my system... :D
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« Reply #21 on: May 14, 2004, 12:04:34 PM »
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Actually, depending on how you have security set in Internet Explorer, there are sites that can quietly download spyware on your computer, without your knowledge.
The default security setting Internet Explorer uses leaves your computer wide open for little programs to plant files and read data from your computer.


I use Spy Bot, found it after I went to a site looking for a decent shotgun somewhere in Orange county, like at a pawnshop, this guy had fixed up a site that seemed to advertise such, but when I visited his site it downloaded TONS of spyware, CoolWebSearch and assorted crapola onto my PC. Unbelieveable! I now run Spy bot at least once a week, it does a good job of identifying and removing such nuisances.
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« Reply #22 on: May 14, 2004, 01:02:33 PM »
While surfing got em back it's so gawddamn irritating download doésn't work or is to slow.
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« Reply #23 on: May 14, 2004, 01:54:47 PM »
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Easy on the fire water Chief.

LOL!:D
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« Reply #24 on: May 14, 2004, 02:02:27 PM »
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Ad Aware should catch it. I used Spybot myself to sweep and get rid of Spy Ware.


i run both every now and then.
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« Reply #25 on: May 14, 2004, 02:19:41 PM »
Spybot is another great free program.  I use both because spybot will find stuff that adaware will miss.  But spybot isn't updated as often.  
While we're on the subject, might as well mention zone alarm.  Anyone who dosen't use a firewall is asking for trouble.
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Offline SunKing

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« Reply #26 on: May 14, 2004, 02:19:45 PM »
and change your browser. Try Firefox

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
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« Reply #27 on: May 14, 2004, 02:41:07 PM »
Skuzzy,

It doesn't matter what security settings the IE users have when the program has ~20 open remote exploits at any given time.

People need to just quit using it and switch to something else. Firefox is a good replacement.

JB,

Firewall will do you zero good if you are using IE because of the forementioned remote exploits. This whole firewall thing is blown way out of proportions. You can prevent them from phoneing home or something similar, that is they don't disable your firewall after escalating their priviliages to superuser...


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« Reply #28 on: May 14, 2004, 03:51:42 PM »
kweassa just freaked out and swore...has that happened before?
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Offline BUG_EAF322

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« Reply #29 on: May 14, 2004, 04:05:42 PM »
just changed my browser thanks for the tip.
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