Tech: For those with no spyware scanners

Subject: Tech: For those with no spyware scanners
From: Edain
Date: 24 May 04 - 06:57 PM

After spending several months trying to convince my flatmates to install a spyware scanner one of them finally caved last night as their computer was running really slowly. After installing ad-aware and running it I recieved these results which I think speack for themselves... Needless to say, her comp now runs fine (and I've re-affirmed my title of Alpha-Geek in the flat).

The moral of this story: INSTALL a spyware scanner, it'll do your comp a world of good :-)

Subject: RE: Tech: For those with no spyware scanners
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 May 04 - 10:17 PM

A very interesting cautionary tale just turned up on Parasite on my computer? thread.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: For those with no spyware scanners
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 25 May 04 - 04:06 AM

Run it a couple more times as well - It always misses a few first time round!

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: Tech: For those with no spyware scanners
From: Gypsy
Date: 25 May 04 - 08:37 PM

Yep, at the advise of Stilly River Sage, installed on my computer........showed 152 infections! OY!

Subject: RE: Tech: For those with no spyware scanners
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 May 04 - 12:14 AM

A lot of what you'll find are simply cookies. I notice that when I go through my system with Ad Aware and dump that stuff that some things I need to log onto next time I visit, but others seem to stay in place (I don't need to sign on at Amazon for it to know who I am, for example). It probably has to do with the nature of the cookies they place. I wonder if they figure out that their tracking cookies are toast, so don't place them each time?

Another way to avoid some of this stuff is to use a good proxy server like Anonymizer. They block tracking cookies, they use "safe cookies" and they don't like Java Script, so there are some sites that don't work right. They may have fixed that, I haven't tried it. Anyway, if you have that invisibility cloak up you can't visit places like Mudcat. I tried it recently, to see where I could go anonymously and what the sites showed. Mudcat knows who you are, EVEN IF YOU "LOG OUT" as a member. So keep that in mind when you post anonymously, you're not really anonymous.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: For those with no spyware scanners
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 26 May 04 - 12:21 AM

Since the time

Of our 20th Century conception

We have ALL left "snail-trails"

Mystic visualities of the night creatures of slime

Living sublime below the "civilization" above.

Sincerely,

Gargoyle

Pack your own shoots....we will all be trailing BROWN if they fail.