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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 r 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 |
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