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[Odoul]

I could KILL my little cousin for infesting my PC with this shit. My computers has been completely fukken whored out. WhenUsearch, Isearch, the works. I could deal. But a popup that gives a goddamn speech and doesn't even present itself for a full minute and I can't alt-ctrl-del.

PLEASE someone tell a program that is guaranteed to guard against this. Norton is completely useless. In the 3 years I've used it, I have not noticed warning me in time, NOT ONCE.

 

[Ecrofirt]

Run your various Spyware tools:

Ad-aware
Spybot
Spyware Doctor (get the free version from download.com, otherwise you can't remove the spyware)
CWShredder

 

[impirius]

HEY! OVER HERE!



NOW I'M DEBT FREE!

 

[Odoul]

Run your various Spyware tools:

Ad-aware
Spybot
Spyware Doctor (get the free version from download.com, otherwise you can't remove the spyware)
CWShredder

Thanks.

Who the hell thinks these things are a good idea? Let's piss someone off by interrupting their music with a loudass ad for something they have less than zero interest in.

I'm probably the least malicious guy you'll ever meet. But the guys who come up with these things? People who design intrusive ads, viruses that do nothing but fukk you up? I HATE and actually wish death upon them. I don't even get this worked up over criminals.

 

[Ecrofirt]

My dad makes a bunch of money for his small business just clearing this trash out of people's PCs.

He's of the opinion that it's getting harder and harder for 'nromal' (read: not tech savvy like most of GAF) people to enjoy using their computer. At least once a week he's going out to fix these PCs for people who don't know much about computers and just want to send emails out to friends.

He thinks that it's going to get to the point soon where people start saying 'to hell with this', and shy away from computers.

Dunno if I agree with him him, but this spyware shit IS getting out of control. You should not need to be forced to use all these layers of defense just to go and view webpages and send email.

 

[shuri]

Stop jerking around

 

[Shogmaster]

Stop jerking around

All well and good for now, but when that becomes the standard, you know they are going to be targetting it like they do IE now.

 

[Vormund]

Then we'll move on to something else.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

go here and download ad muncher.

Ad Muncher Usage Statistics for v4.52 Build 9048
Adverts removed by Ad Muncher: 161,167
Approximate bandwidth saved: 1,259 MB
Counter started: September 14, 2003

it is by far the best program I've used to stop these things. It's a one-time registratin fee of $25, but it is so very worth it.

 

[dem]

What in the fuck are people doing to get so much spyware? I never get anything

... AND i use IE.

 

[FortNinety]

... cough... cough... Safari.... cough....

 

[Phoenix]

All well and good for now, but when that becomes the standard, you know they are going to be targetting it like they do IE now.

Not compelling argument. Firefox isn't the open scripting door that IE/XP is so even when it becomes the standard it won't be anywhere near as bad as IE currently is. If marketshare determined whether or not a system was heavily exploited, the Apache web server (the web server leader) would be the most exploited web server on the net. Instead its the LEAST exploited.

 

[ZILLION]

1.Adaware

Download adaware,update and run a full system scan. Make sure you run the full scan,not the smart scan. Delete the entries it finds

2.Spybot

Download Spybot,update,then check for problems. Delete the entries it finds.

3.Spyware Blaster

Spyware Blaster doesn't remove spyware. It prevents it from being installed. Download,and update. Associate it with your browser and close. It runs silently in the background.

4.Hijack This

Unzip hijack this to your desktop and run a scan. Save the log to your desktop. DO NOT FIX ANYTHING ON YOUR OWN!!!!! Go to http://forums.techguy.org/ and register. Then post your hijack this log in the security forum. You'll see other people doing the same. Somebody there will tell you what Hijack This entries need to be fixed.

You're done. Keep Spyware Blaster,Spybot and Adaware updated and that'll take care of spyware in the future.

 

[Ristamar]

1.Adaware

Download adaware,update and run a full system scan. Make sure you run the full scan,not the smart scan. Delete the entries it finds

2.Spybot

Download Spybot,update,then check for problems. Delete the entries it finds.

3.Spyware Blaster

Spyware Blaster doesn't remove spyware. It prevents it from being installed. Download,and update. Associate it with your browser and close. It runs silently in the background.

4.Hijack This

Unzip hijack this to your desktop and run a scan. Save the log to your desktop. DO NOT FIX ANYTHING ON YOUR OWN!!!!! Go to http://forums.techguy.org/ and register. Then post your hijack this log in the security forum. You'll see other people doing the same. Somebody there will tell you what Hijack This entries need to be fixed.

You're done. Keep Spyware Blaster,Spybot and Adaware updated and that'll take care of spyware in the future.

IAWTP, but it's still fucking bullshit that these sort of measures need to be taken. I guess you have to take the good with the bad when it comes to the relatively unregulated freedoms of the internet.

 

[Overseer]

Stop jerking around

IAWTP

 

[EdLuva]

HEY! OVER HERE!



NOW I'M DEBT FREE!

Ugh!! I hated that one!

I solved my...DEBT PROBLEMS, now I'm livin'...DEBT FREE!

..and the Casino one always made me jump.

Firefox solved my banner/popup problem.

 

[Anthropic]

Not compelling argument. Firefox isn't the open scripting door that IE/XP is so even when it becomes the standard it won't be anywhere near as bad as IE currently is. If marketshare determined whether or not a system was heavily exploited, the Apache web server (the web server leader) would be the most exploited web server on the net. Instead its the LEAST exploited.

Yeah. In the event that Firefox was to become popular enough to be a major target (and with the downloads being measured in hundreds of thousands per day, it could happen), it would be a much faster moving, more swiftly patching target. There would still be problems, but not the massive, hillarious problems IE has.

Really, the major IE problem now is Microsoft's policy of shooting itself in the foot with these decisions to patch IE on platform (XP SP2) and delay or even not create patches for IE on other platforms. SP2 fixed a myriad of security problems (not all of them, obviously) in August/September, but patches for these issues are only now (December) trickling in for users who don't use SP2 or use an older version of Windows. That's assinine.

In contrast, Mozilla's policy has been consistantly to patch security issues within a week of discovery or so, which isn't enough time for exploits to become widely problamatic.