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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

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"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

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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?


Possible, but more likely that you visited a website that just dumped a load
of crap on you. It can happen in nearly an instant when visiting a
malicious website. Been there.

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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:40:18 GMT, "RG" wrote:

Possible, but more likely that you visited a website that just dumped a load
of crap on you. It can happen in nearly an instant when visiting a
malicious website. Been there.

On a poorly protected network you don't even need to visit a web site.
There are worms on some networks running around probing for vulnerable
computers to infect. After years with no problems I caught one a
while back just dialing into a podunk ISP for a 5 minute EMAIL check
with one of my laptops. It locked up completely and required a total
rebuild.

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"RG" wrote in message news:6OVZg.8763

Possible, but more likely that you visited a website that just dumped a
load
of crap on you. It can happen in nearly an instant when visiting a
malicious website. Been there.

Forgive me.. but I was unnaware that a website (alone) could give you
anything (but cookies)without you agreeing to download or enable "something
or other". As far as I know there's no such thing as an HTML virus or worm.

-W

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"Clams Canino" wrote in message
nk.net...

"RG" wrote in message news:6OVZg.8763

Possible, but more likely that you visited a website that just dumped a
load
of crap on you. It can happen in nearly an instant when visiting a
malicious website. Been there.

Forgive me.. but I was unnaware that a website (alone) could give you
anything (but cookies)without you agreeing to download or enable
"something
or other". As far as I know there's no such thing as an HTML virus or
worm.

-W



I think you are in error. The Spy Doctor program checks for about 4000
"known malicious websites" and is updated weekly.

Eisboch

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Clams Canino wrote:

:"RG" wrote in message news:6OVZg.8763

: Possible, but more likely that you visited a website that just dumped a
:load
: of crap on you. It can happen in nearly an instant when visiting a
: malicious website. Been there.

:Forgive me.. but I was unnaware that a website (alone) could give you
:anything (but cookies)without you agreeing to download or enable "something
:or other". As far as I know there's no such thing as an HTML virus or worm.


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

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"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

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Eisboch wrote:
"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



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.

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"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