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[Afro Thunder]

I´m working now browsing while removing spyware from a customer PC and I found this very good article on spyware infections...

On a fresh test computer, I pressed Yes once to allow the installation. My computer quickly became contaminated with the most spyware programs I have ever received in a single sitting, including at least the following 31 programs: 180solutions, Addictive Technologies, AdMilli, BargainBuddy, begin2search, BookedSpace, BullsEye, CoolWebSearch, DealHelper, DyFuca, EliteBar, Elitum, Ezula, Favoriteman, HotSearchBar, I-Lookup, Instafin, Internet Optimizer, ISTbar, Megasearch, PowerScan, ShopAtHome Select, SearchRelevancy, SideFind, TargetSavers, TrafficHog, TV Media, WebRebates, WindUpdates, Winpup32, and VX2 (DirectRevenue). (Most product names are as detected by Lavasoft Ad-Aware.) All told, the infection added 58 folders, 786 files, and an incredible 11,915 registry entries to my test computer. Not one of these programs had showed me any license agreement, nor had I consented to their installation on my computer.

http://www.benedelman.org/news/010205-1.html

The situation is getting out of control...

 

[Zelda-Bitch]

It pisses me off to no end that these people can get away with this shit. Anyone who doesn't have a decent knowledge of pc's and spyware is pretty much fucked. That's just unexceptable.

 

[Orin GA]

nm

 

[tedtropy]

It pisses me off to no end that these people can get away with this shit. Anyone who doesn't have a decent knowledge of pc's and spyware is pretty much fucked. That's just unexceptable.

At last, computers are back in the hands of only the truly dorky! MWAA HA HA MWAacck cough <sprays asthma medicine>.

 

[God's Hand]

People will undoubtedly blame Windows "lack" of security, but we gotta understand that putting anything on a network opens it to attacks, regardless of how secure it may be. Plus, Windows is used by hundreds of millions of users and has hundreds of millions of bad software. It's uncontrollable. The best MS can do is keep that anti-virus/anti-spyware software free (which it seems to be doing), and enable firewall on all PCs. The new IE has some nice preventative measures by pounding it in a users face that there could be something malicious with what they are doing.

However, there's always stupid people out there who just like hitting YES on the net. Like my brother. The new IE warned him not to do something, but he hit yes anyway and he got a virus.