God I hate spyware.

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NJD2003

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So I come upstairs after watching tv and see my brother is on the computer, I kick him off because its time for bed. He shuts down the computer and leaves, now it doesn't shut down normally, some exe stuff didn't do whatever, and they windows says all this crap about protection error. I restart the computer and notice it takes 7 minutes to boot up. I load up IE and see the homepage is set to some sex page, and I can't change it, great. i look at the history and see he has been looking at BBW porn, dumbass. I run spybot and ad-aware and they take some stuff out, but this spyware is tricky, damn stuff changing some reg keys. I open up my computer and notice about 30 .exe files that are all in hidden mode and have just been modified and created in the last 2 hours, grr damn spyware. So i wipe out all that, then some .htt files that the bitch put in too. I open up regedit so i can change my homepage back to normal and a bunch of stuff is outta place, grr I REALLY HATE SPYWARE! :flame: Anyways everything is finally fixed, god I hate spyware.
 
Now all that's left to do is to devise a suitable punishment for said brother.
 
Have your parents teach him the correct way to look at porn. (See, when we get little windows asking if it's alright to 'install' something, we say 'no', just like with drugs... you remember our drug conversation don't you?)
 
Or Opera. Or use SypwareBlaster. And the immunize functions of Spybot.

Welcome to the club, btw... :|

Glad it's sorted.
:cheers:
 
Letters said:
Have your parents teach him the correct way to look at porn. (See, when we get little windows asking if it's alright to 'install' something, we say 'no', just like with drugs... you remember our drug conversation don't you?)
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Or you could be like, "Mom, Dad (insert brother's name here) was wacking to pr0n on the computer", "Gay pr0n at that!!!" :thumbs:
 
NJD2003 said:
I use spywareblaster, he's 24 for god's sake.
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Sorry dude, thats funny... anyway, sorry about your bad luck, I ran into some problems with that about a year ago, not a pretty story. Buy your brother a magazine or something maybe, jeez i dont even know... lol
 
show ur parents what he looked at, and then, laugh at him. tell them the comps junked an dthen hope to god they get u a better one :naughty:
 
It's disturbing when you find out your brother is watching porn on the computer. I was cleaning out my moms home office computer of spyware and viruses a while a go and when I opened up IE I found that my web search bar. Which you only get when your on porn or warez sites. So I checked the history. What a stupid brother I have he doesnt even know how to delete his history! Because only computer haxors know that stuff according to him(give me a break). So the site names were in the adress bar and also in the sidebar on the left of IE that tells you all sites you have visited. And you probably dont even want to know what I found when I checked the recieved files in the documents folder.
Now im very happy that I dont let anyone touch my computer.
 
As for me, no one!! and I mean NO ONE!!! will ever touch my computer without my permission!! :borg:
 
nothing beats a bios batt refresh and a knoppix bootup for bypassing all system passwords. I'd love to spend 5 mins on your machines, I bet theres some really weird crap on them.
 
I have a key/switch mounted on my floppy bay and connected to my power on button so no one without my key can turn on my PC. It's a big deterent and no one would want to find a way to turn it on. ;)

Though you could always use a bios password or better password/permissions in Windows.

Spybot and Spywareblaster are my friends.
 
a 10p stuck inbetween the power jumpers on your mobo would render your defences worthless, asus... unless you have a padlock on your case, then it'd get physical :D

Bios passwords are so easily overcome I just don't bother, as for XP passwords, it's a shame XP doesnt encrypt the files on the file system making them only accessible to that particular install of windows. Putting a knoppix boot CD in the drive and starting up will give you access to all files on all drives, regardless of the windows installation on there.


The best line of defence is file encryption, I hope the Longhorn file system does support drive encryption, although they probably won't... since it'd make the dark goverenment agencies' jobs a whole lot harder.
 
Pobz said:
a 10p stuck inbetween the power jumpers on your mobo would render your defences worthless, asus... unless you have a padlock on your case, then it'd get physical :D
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That's why I said
It's a big deterent and no one would want to find a way to turn it on.
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It's only a deterent. It isn't about preventing someone from getting info off my PC if they really wanted but for detering someone from using my PC. hehe
Just like a firewall.
I do have a PW on my bios (setup) but I never have my CD set to boot. btw
 
Bios passwords are so easily overcome I just don't bother
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Its good enough for me to keep my family from touching my computer. You cant use knoppix if you boot from hd I think.

Most people wont even bother if they have to work to get at your files.
 
Well if your machine gets stolen, then its just better knowing nobody can get any valuable info from it. That said though, I doubt even 1% of burglars know how to overcome the bios password + enable CD booting, let alone have a knoppix CD. heh.
 
You cant enable cd booting unless you can overcome bios password. Of coarse they could just take the hard drive and put it in a different machine if they didint know how to disable the bios password.
 
I use a combination of Norton Antivirus, Spyware Blaster, Spyware Search and Destroy and Spy Sweeper.

When the reveloution comes, as your god is my witness, the people who make and host spyware will be dragged from their homes into the streets, naked by their hair and shot.
 
Since 90% of spyware installations rely on user stupidity, and the other 10% on open ports, I find the combination of common sense and a firewall works great.

:p
 
My aunt's computer keeps getting infected with Spyware, everytime I go over I have to clean it. And when I clean it, I mean that there's no trace of spyware left, but it SOMEHOW gets back in! I think she's smart enough to know what things are bad, but not her daughter or my friend.
 
Pobz said:
Since 90% of spyware installations rely on user stupidity, and the other 10% on open ports, I find the combination of common sense and a firewall works great.

:p
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It's worked 100% for me. Long live Sygate!
 
I use DriveCrypt Plus Pack it Encrypts the whole operating system.
here's what it does -
- Full Disk Encryption (Encrypts parts or 100% of your HardDisk including the operating System)
- Pre-Boot authentication (BEFORE the machines boots, a password is requested to decrypt the disk and start your machine)
- Strong 256bit AES encryption

the AES encryption is one of the best you can get, I dont want no 1 seeing my dodgy dealings :hmph:

And here's the site - http://www.securstar.com/
 
Only thing stopping me from getting that is the price.
 
Over the last few months my pc has become infested with Spyware.

I can't find any solution. Ad-aware, Spybot Search & Destroy, Spyware Blaster and Spy Sweeper all find, and delete, spyware - but it's back almost instantly. Pop ups are becoming more frequent, my home page constantly changes and new, obscene, pages are constantly added to my favourites :/

Any suggestions would be very welcome.

(I use Norton Personal firewall btw - have recently tried Sygate, but the problems persist)
 
Sounds like they're all passing over a trojan or something. You've updated them all, yes?

If you're still using MS Internet Explorer, you need to switch to literally anything else. Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, whatever you can find!

Spybot S&D has some feature to lock the MSIE homepage, IIRC..
 
Warbie said:
Over the last few months my pc has become infested with Spyware.

I can't find any solution. Ad-aware, Spybot Search & Destroy, Spyware Blaster and Spy Sweeper all find, and delete, spyware - but it's back almost instantly. Pop ups are becoming more frequent, my home page constantly changes and new, obscene, pages are constantly added to my favourites :/

Any suggestions would be very welcome.

(I use Norton Personal firewall btw - have recently tried Sygate, but the problems persist)
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sounds like you have coolwebsearch. get CWS shredder. bazooka spyware killer is also good, it catches some things that all others dont.

also, IE is pretty secure against spyware if you get service pack 2 for XP. i use both ie and firefox, and dont get spyware in either now.
 
Theres so many programs. I wish there was jsut one that caught everything. Instead I have to use 4 and they all get one the other doesnt. Instead of playing games (which was the reason I got a computer) im cleaning out spyware and viruses. But you only get spyware and viruses when you go to porn or warez sites.
 
A coworker paid me $20 to take a look at his parents computer because it was running slow. I turned on the computer (A 1 Ghz celeron running Windows 2000, lol), only to find that there was no free physical RAM and the processor was running at a constant 12% usage at all times.

Spybot and Adaware detected over 200 pieces of adaware on their computer. I am honestly amazed at how evil some of the spyware was on that computer. In fact, I couldn't get all of it off. Most notably was a spyware program under the name "wtoolsA.exe." It was always identified as a critical system process, even in windows safe mode. I eventually gave up and decided not to go registry splunking. Hey, it was only 20 dollars. ;) They were really happy with what I did with there computer. Ending result? 40 MB of free physical RAM and a constant 3% processor usage.

As for getting rid of spyware, adaware and spybot only works so well. Besides digging in the registry, I recommend "surfing" through windows explorer and find any unknown files (especially executables) and delete them. That is the easiest way of eliminating recurring spyware.

For all time records of spyware, my friends computer could have set a world record. Her computer has some 400 instances of spyware before adaware would hang. :dozey: It was so bad that she had to reformat her computer to set it straight.

I'm glad my computer is clean as a whistle. ;)
 
I ran spyblaster on my parents computer a month ago and took a screen shot. Im going to find it its got something like 200 spywares on it.
 
"startuplist" is a good little prog to have. if spyware has put something to startup with windows, this will find it. it also shows all processes running including hidden ones.

hijackthis is also very useful. it would be nice if all these programs were integrated into one though, i agree. heres a link for startuplist, hijackthis, and cws shredder:

http://www.net-integration.net/tools/hijackthis.html
 
Well i cant upload the picture for some reason but its got 263 spyware's on the system
 
Turns out there was a damn Trojan Horse Downloader that was downloading the damn spyware, well it's gone. Anyways..... Where can I dl Firefox (provide link please.) And what good programs for firefox are there. (Addon type of thing, like iespell for IE.)
 
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