adware

[willawake]

not a bad article to tell friends/clients to check out

Invasion of the Computer Snatchers
Hackers are hijacking thousands of PCs to spy on users, shake down online businesses, steal identities and send millions of pieces of spam. If you think your computer is safe, think again

By Brian Krebs
Sunday, February 19, 2006; Page W10

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...021401342.html

[Mustang]

Re: adware

Ignorance is bliss...heh..whoever coined that phrase should be banned in this day and age.
Out of all the protection software out there, a firewall..antivirus..adaware etc..I've found common sense is your best defence against any wouldbe hacker. 2nd is a very nice program called MRUBLASTER. This wipes all passwords, cookies, URL's etc from you pc leaving 1 less avenue of attack.http://www.wilders.org

[stretch0069]

Re: adware

Well...I use Firefox, Norton Anti-virus, Ad-Aware, and Spybot S&D. I don't allow the browser to remember passwords. I keep cookies to a minimum. I also wear condoms on the two fingers I type with.

I agree with Mustang though. Common sense is your best defense. Too bad common sense isn't so common anymore.

I also have a pretty good program that goes through the registry and checks for a number of things. Allows me to delete certain things from the registry.

[Chris1992]

Re: adware

I use K-Meleon, McAfee suite, and Spybot S&D. I'll prob ditch McAfee for Avast and Kerio, and add Ad-aware SE. The school's boxes are running FF or K-Meleon, and no antivirus or firewall (we have a HW firewall). A few boxes have Spybot S&D or Ad-aware, tho.

[Rainbow]

Re: adware

Use Linux.

[Chris1992]

Re: adware

Some software I need requires Windoze, like Anders Isaksson's BlockCAD. web.telia.com/~u16122508/proglego.htm Also, students at my school despise linux. Why? I have no idea.

[Rainbow]

Re: adware

I thought it should work in Wine but I've just tried it and it does not work properly. Maybe it's because of old Wine version I have...

[CaysE]

Re: adware

If you want to remove spyware and the like, I wrote a good walkthrough on how to do it effectively here:

On my machine though, I no longer use anti-spyware software, and really the only piece of security software on my machine itself is NOD32 from www.eset.com I've been doing computer repair for years and I haven't found a better anti-virus program than this one.

The real guards? A linksys router properly configured will kill off your daily Internet hits from machines looking for open ports. And the most important of all... not using an administrator account! I can't stress this one enough... everything that gets installed on your machine is installed because your login name has admin priveleges. Learn how to create and use two user accounts in Windows!

[davmax]

Re: adware

I agree that a router with firewall is a great first step that prevents the computer from being visible to the Internet. If I bypass the router so that the computer is directly connected to the Internet there is a network attack within 20 minutes.

So in addition to that I use the standard Windows SP2 firewall, Kaspersky AV Personal that has consistently outperformed Norton in protection capability and now MS Windows Defender beta 2. The latter has few oddities but it is better than beta 1 that generated piles of temp files, no longer with beta 2.

Some users tell me that they do not open attachments that are suspect. The Kaspersky experience is that if an attachment is loaded with a malware the e-mail will be tagged with "message disinfected" and it is not possible to open the attachment.

[willawake]

Re: adware

heres another one http://spamkings.oreilly.com/
i like reading about the people behind the adware.

[willawake]

Re: adware

whats alternative to killbox
i am dll hunting without success
want to know whats calling the dll also

[i4004]

Re: adware

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb896645.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb896653.aspx
hell, get 'em all
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...c5a693683.aspx

if it's tough i would first run this
http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php
from safe-mode

particular removal instructions here
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum55.html

[kc8adu]

Re: adware

hitman pro.
http://www.hitmanpro.nl/hitmanpro/co...w/3/9/lang,en/
runs a bunch of common utils automaticly.
remember to go to setup and uncheck pctools spyware doctor as it wont remove anything for free anymore.
also in the settings look for accept license agreements and set it too.
then you just sit back and watch.

[willawake]

Re: adware

cool stuff

[shadow]

Re: adware

hitman pro.
http://www.hitmanpro.nl/hitmanpro/co...w/3/9/lang,en/
runs a bunch of common utils automaticly.
remember to go to setup and uncheck pctools spyware doctor as it wont remove anything for free anymore.
also in the settings look for accept license agreements and set it too.
then you just sit back and watch.

Interesting concept. I have to try it out.

[willawake]

Re: adware

i have never got hitman pro to complete a scan
and fuck this trojan vundo persistent crap uuuuuuh

[gonzo0815]

Re: adware

With vundo fixer it is not that hard to get ride of Vundo.

[willawake]

Re: adware

i have tried several which say vundo not found

[Fatal0E]

Re: adware

http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe

thats what i use on vundo

[willawake]

Re: adware

ok i got it now. used a whole bunch of stuff