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

"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

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.

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.

"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

"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

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

"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

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.

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.