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Eisboch wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message . .. I am still getting an occasional pop up coming through, but nothing like what was happening before I installed Spy Doctor. I think I'll start using Firefox as the browser again but would like to keep using OE for email and newsgroups. Probably a mistake, huh? I could never get used to Agent or Thunderbird. Eisboch Eisboch, I had a very similar virus, Spyware Doctor would removed 99% of the Spyware, but that one percent will grow if you don't remove it, even if you stop using IE. After awhile it will be as bad as it ever was. Use HijackThis (free): http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/#startuplist and post the log on http://forums.tomcoyote.org/index.ph...f5c2d80a7d9c4& They will tell you which lines to remove from your start up directory to completely. If you post the log in rec.boats, I will take a look and see if I recognize the spyware lines. It turns out I had done a "quick scan". I just finished a "full scan" and it found a bunch of additional items to fix. I'll try it now for a while and see what happens. So far, no popups. I'll save your post and suggestion though, just in case. Starting to feel like a "geek". Eisboch Eisboch, Now that you have removed the spyware, what antivirus/spyware software have you installed to make sure you don't get it again? I use McAffee Security Center, since I get it free from Comcast, but a nice free antivirus is: http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html and a great free Anti-Spyware is MS Defender : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en The final IE7 is now available online and it includes improved phishing and trojan protection. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...s/default.mspx |
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:10:25 GMT, "Clams Canino"
wrote: As far as I know there's no such thing as an HTML virus or worm. Not true unfortunately. There are a *lot* of HTML exploits, and many more involving various scripts invoked by HTML. |
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Eisboch wrote in article . .. "Eisboch" wrote in message ... Thanks for all the suggestions and recommendations. Looks like I got it cleaned up and working ok again. Harry ... thanks for the Spy Doctor recommendation. It did the trick. Eisboch I was thinking about the recent spyware problems I had. As previously posted, I was bragging about how I had used various computers for years without virus or spyware protection and never had any problems. I've had this particular laptop for over a year hooked to Adelphia for an ISP and never had any problems. Then suddenly, it got trashed with spyware stuff in a matter of a couple of days. It just dawned on me that the problems started almost to the day that we got a notice that we may experience some network difficulties and/or brief outages because the Adelphia network was being taken over by Comcast who bought Adelphia a while back. They were doing something with existing Adelphia customers to integrate it into Comcast. I wonder if that had anything to do with the sudden onset of spyware stuff. Maybe Adelphia's service was better protected? Eisboch FWIW My ISP (SusCom) was taken over by Comcast as well, and when my email address was changed I too started getting a lot of junk email. So, I'm guessing that Comcast email filters are not as strict plus the Comcast customer base is a much bigger target for malicious/unsolicited email senders. TomC P.S. They're web site (Comcast) sucks. It won't load in my brower if cookies are disabled and then it takes forever if I enable them. So, I've moved onto Yahoo for my home site. |
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"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message . .. Now that you have removed the spyware, what antivirus/spyware software have you installed to make sure you don't get it again? I use McAffee Security Center, since I get it free from Comcast, but a nice free antivirus is: http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html and a great free Anti-Spyware is MS Defender : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en The final IE7 is now available online and it includes improved phishing and trojan protection. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...s/default.mspx I enabled the full Spy Doctor real time monitoring. It seems to be doing the job. I've been browsing around, trying to see if I still get popups and so far there have not been any. The Spy Doctor window pops up for a second every once in a while to announce that it just blocked a cookie. I will probably let Microsoft update to the IE ver 7 automatically when it wants to, but I think I am going to continue to use Firefox as a browser. I didn't use it for a while because it was missing some plugins and for some reason it could not load them automatically (Java Runtime Environment). This caused some items not to work, including the Pagebuilder program I use for the website. But somehow I was able to download it directly from the Java site and it now works fine in Firefox as well as IE. Firefox seems much more stable than IE. But ..... what do I know ... Eisboch |
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Eisboch wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message . .. I am still getting an occasional pop up coming through, but nothing like what was happening before I installed Spy Doctor. I think I'll start using Firefox as the browser again but would like to keep using OE for email and newsgroups. Probably a mistake, huh? I could never get used to Agent or Thunderbird. Eisboch Eisboch, I had a very similar virus, Spyware Doctor would removed 99% of the Spyware, but that one percent will grow if you don't remove it, even if you stop using IE. After awhile it will be as bad as it ever was. Use HijackThis (free): http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/#startuplist and post the log on http://forums.tomcoyote.org/index.ph...f5c2d80a7d9c4& They will tell you which lines to remove from your start up directory to completely. If you post the log in rec.boats, I will take a look and see if I recognize the spyware lines. It turns out I had done a "quick scan". I just finished a "full scan" and it found a bunch of additional items to fix. I'll try it now for a while and see what happens. So far, no popups. I'll save your post and suggestion though, just in case. Starting to feel like a "geek". Eisboch PS - You really need to do the "full scan" in "SAFE MODE". Since the random generated file is running in the background under normal start up, no antivirus or antispyware is able to delete the file when in "normal startup" since the file is being used by the system. |
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Eisboch wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message . .. Now that you have removed the spyware, what antivirus/spyware software have you installed to make sure you don't get it again? I use McAffee Security Center, since I get it free from Comcast, but a nice free antivirus is: http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html and a great free Anti-Spyware is MS Defender : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en The final IE7 is now available online and it includes improved phishing and trojan protection. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...s/default.mspx I enabled the full Spy Doctor real time monitoring. It seems to be doing the job. I've been browsing around, trying to see if I still get popups and so far there have not been any. The Spy Doctor window pops up for a second every once in a while to announce that it just blocked a cookie. I will probably let Microsoft update to the IE ver 7 automatically when it wants to, but I think I am going to continue to use Firefox as a browser. I didn't use it for a while because it was missing some plugins and for some reason it could not load them automatically (Java Runtime Environment). This caused some items not to work, including the Pagebuilder program I use for the website. But somehow I was able to download it directly from the Java site and it now works fine in Firefox as well as IE. Firefox seems much more stable than IE. But ..... what do I know ... Eisboch Glad to see it has solved the problem. |
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:19:31 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message m... Thanks for all the suggestions and recommendations. Looks like I got it cleaned up and working ok again. Harry ... thanks for the Spy Doctor recommendation. It did the trick. Eisboch I was thinking about the recent spyware problems I had. As previously posted, I was bragging about how I had used various computers for years without virus or spyware protection and never had any problems. I've had this particular laptop for over a year hooked to Adelphia for an ISP and never had any problems. Then suddenly, it got trashed with spyware stuff in a matter of a couple of days. It just dawned on me that the problems started almost to the day that we got a notice that we may experience some network difficulties and/or brief outages because the Adelphia network was being taken over by Comcast who bought Adelphia a while back. They were doing something with existing Adelphia customers to integrate it into Comcast. I wonder if that had anything to do with the sudden onset of spyware stuff. Maybe Adelphia's service was better protected? Eisboch I use the McAfee suite, including a firewall, and Mailwasher. For the internet, I use Mozilla 99% of the time, going to IE only when a site isn't supported by Mozilla. For a newsreader, I use Agent 1.9 which is very simple to set up and use. I've never (knock on wood) had a virus on my computer. Maybe I've just been lucky. |
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"Eisboch" wrote in message ... "David Scheidt" wrote in message ... There are a large number of exploits that take advantage of bugs in web browsers to do nasty things. They're mostly, but not entirely, confined to Internet Explorer. Most of them turn up as "zero-day" exploits, meaning that malicious use of them is being made when security researchers announce their existence. The Windows operating system itself has any number of remote exploits in it; some of these could be used by a website. David I am still getting an occasional pop up coming through, but nothing like what was happening before I installed Spy Doctor. I think I'll start using Firefox as the browser again but would like to keep using OE for email and newsgroups. Probably a mistake, huh? I could never get used to Agent or Thunderbird. Eisboch There are some pretty decent plugins for Firefox. These include AdBlock, TinyURL and others. A nice site showing them is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpellBound_(spell_checker) I have been using Firefox for some time now and am quite happy with it. Like you I could never get used to Thunderbird so I stick with OE. Like you |
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" JimH" not telling you @ pffftt.com wrote in message . .. "Eisboch" wrote in message ... "David Scheidt" wrote in message ... There are a large number of exploits that take advantage of bugs in web browsers to do nasty things. They're mostly, but not entirely, confined to Internet Explorer. Most of them turn up as "zero-day" exploits, meaning that malicious use of them is being made when security researchers announce their existence. The Windows operating system itself has any number of remote exploits in it; some of these could be used by a website. David I am still getting an occasional pop up coming through, but nothing like what was happening before I installed Spy Doctor. I think I'll start using Firefox as the browser again but would like to keep using OE for email and newsgroups. Probably a mistake, huh? I could never get used to Agent or Thunderbird. Eisboch There are some pretty decent plugins for Firefox. These include AdBlock, TinyURL and others. A nice site showing them is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpellBound_(spell_checker) I have been using Firefox for some time now and am quite happy with it. Like you I could never get used to Thunderbird so I stick with OE. Oops, a bad case of the hiccups! Removed the extra line of "Like you..." |
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" JimH" not telling you @ pffftt.com wrote in message . .. Oops, a bad case of the hiccups! Removed the extra line of "Like you..." Thought you were just trying to be extra friendly. Eisboch |
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