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First Spyware
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 10:02 am
by Sergeant Thorne
System Restore: .!.. spyware
Man, people who make programs to install on your computer without consent should be put to painful public humiliation! This is my first encounter with spyware; I went to a site to get a game patch for my sister and a whole bunch of pop-ups came up, after that the funny stuff started happening (things popping up on restart + several EXEs running in the background), and finally I found 6-7+ programs that I had not installed in the "Add and Remove programs" area. I discovered that the EXEs, along with a few other files, were dated 5/12/04 (today), so I did a system restore--all taken care of.
System Restore really does come in handy!
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 10:21 am
by Lothar
why system restore?
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
Grab adaware. If you also have antivirus software, you should be fine...
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 11:59 am
by Testiculese
Don't these companies (Gator) have physical addresses? And no one's leveled the building? Just think..who would be prosecuted? The FBI would have to go through (persons that received email spam) + (Persons that got raped with adware) + (Persons that installed Realplayer). That's, what, 350 million suspects? Just wear gloves and a hat, and take a shower with an exfoliating brush first!
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 1:13 pm
by MD-2389
I say give them the same punishment that any spam company should get. The death penalty.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 1:15 pm
by Grendel
Lothar wrote:Grab adaware. If you also have antivirus software, you should be fine...
Also grab
Spybot Search&Destroy and
Spyware Blaster.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 1:24 pm
by MD-2389
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 4:23 pm
by Sergeant Thorne
Lothar wrote:why system restore?
System Restore was the perfect solution in this case, as I haven't made any system changes recently. I don't have any experience with anti-spyware programs yet, and System Restore was a good clean-sweep.. actually, I realize now that I still have remnants of these things on my hard drive--just not in my system. Maybe I'll give some of those programs a look. Thanks.
P.S. Is the DBB going slow for anyone else?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 5:38 pm
by Grendel
Sergeant Thorne wrote:
P.S. Is the DBB going slow for anyone else?
Yes, slower than PD..
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 8:05 pm
by woodchip
Also get mozilla to block pop-ups.
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 8:21 pm
by Tetrad
IE will soon be able to do it
natively, although most people have been using at least the google toolbar for quite some time.
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 6:10 pm
by Tyranny
That small popup-blocking notification banner better be able to be turned off. I don't want to see an extra strip of crap when a popup is blocked, just block the damn thing.
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 6:55 pm
by Tetrad
Of course it can.
