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Takumi_X

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Spyware

Okay my comp is infected with spyware and the pop ups didnt bother me at first but now I cant play d2 without it kicking me to desktop to see a popup saying that I have spyware and click there to get rid of popups (ironic I know)

Anyway do any of you know where I can download a anti-spyware program that will not only just tell me I'm infected (I already know that) but get rid of it without having to pay the fee? :spy:
 
ad aware and spybot. use any searchengine and you find their homepages. i dont know them without looking, too. they are both free and get rid of those nasties.
 
yeh adn try downloading a firewall (theres a nice free one at zonealarm.com) so u dont get em again...but u should still run the cleaning programs once a week or so
 
Sigh.

First of al, download Firefox. This will prevent a lot of spyware. Secondly, get a pop-upblocker, like googlebar (iirc). Thirdly, get ad-aware+spybot search&destroy and spysweeper. If you're badly infected, like you seem to be, run them all one after the other, twice. That should get everything, or almost everything. Then, scan at least weekly, preferably with 2 anti spyware proggies. And lastly, visit as few pornsite or any other site that looks suspicious. The order in which you do the above isn't important as long as you do it all, like I did. Guess how much spyware I have? ;)

HoD
 
Deceit, I use AdAware together with Spybot and I never have to deal with spyware anymore. Maybe it's the combination of the two that does the trick, but otherwise I don't know where you got that comment from. Before this, I have been using Adaware on its own and didn't encounter any problems. I just decided to use Spybot on top of it, because it wouldn't be harmful anyway.
 
Are you using Windows ME? If so, switch to Windows 2000 and make installing programs an Administrator-only option. That way (provided you're not logged in as Administrator when surfing the net), Every application will be unable to install anything unless you give it specific permission to. I did this (plus a firewall, plus spy detection software) and have not had any problems since.
 
Herald of Doom said:
Sigh.

First of al, download Firefox. [...] Secondly, get a pop-upblocker[...]
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why would you use a pop-up blocker in firefox, when this is one of the standard features of firefox?

regards,
*Bolzano
 
Meosha said:
Are you using Windows ME? If so, switch to Windows 2000 and make installing programs an Administrator-only option. That way (provided you're not logged in as Administrator when surfing the net), Every application will be unable to install anything unless you give it specific permission to. I did this (plus a firewall, plus spy detection software) and have not had any problems since.
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Then it's probably your spy detection software, and maybe your firewall as well, that did it. Whether you have to give permission to install anything or not, has little effect on spyware on your computer - at least in my experience.
 
snowieken said:
Deceit, I use AdAware together with Spybot and I never have to deal with spyware anymore. Maybe it's the combination of the two that does the trick, but otherwise I don't know where you got that comment from. Before this, I have been using Adaware on its own and didn't encounter any problems. I just decided to use Spybot on top of it, because it wouldn't be harmful anyway.
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I got the comment from my friends comp, when 10 minutes after he dled and ran ad ware he got about 100 popups etc.......... I had to disable the lil ***** since it kept on going and going and goinggggggggggg
 
Get rid of spyware?

"Spybot" is all you need

worked great for me when i had tons of spyware from file sharing programs
 
Deceit said:
I got the comment from my friends comp, when 10 minutes after he dled and ran ad ware he got about 100 popups etc.......... I had to disable the lil ***** since it kept on going and going and goinggggggggggg
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ad ware is the problem.
AdAware is the (or one) solution.

Note the difference.

Run spybot and adaware as they both detect things the other did not.
 
I got most of the stuff fixed except my home page keeps getting changed to some search engine or a porn site (they both keep taking over one another) Any ideas how I can get rid of that or do I need do download some other ad aware thing because the other one is missing?
 
Bolzano said:
why would you use a pop-up blocker in firefox, when this is one of the standard features of firefox?

regards,
*Bolzano
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Firefox does not block all pop-ups, even with firefox and a pop-up blocker+add blocker some things get through. It's amazing how smart people get when they want to annoy you.

""Spybot" is all you need" : Not true, none of the anti-spyware is 100%. that's why dl'ing two or more is the best thing to do, one of them is bound to find it.

A clean version of ad-aware (notice its not adware, adware is a program+an ad, ad-Aware is being aware of them) should not install spyware iirc.

@Toader: "sigh"' because I can't understand how people still don't realise spyware is 10x more likely then virusses to happen to you. And yet, most of them have some sort of anti-virus but not a single anti-spyware.
 
Takumi_X said:
I got most of the stuff fixed except my home page keeps getting changed to some search engine or a porn site (they both keep taking over one another) Any ideas how I can get rid of that or do I need do download some other ad aware thing because the other one is missing?
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start regedit

go to keys
hkcu\softw\ms\ie\main\startpage and edit it to about:blank
hkcu\soft\policies\ms\ie\control panel\homepage set to 1. if the key is not there create regdword and set it to 1.
this works for ie. dont know what you have.
 
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