Malware and spyware people should be..
19 January 2005 | 03:21 PM
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Malware and spyware people should be..
decapitated and have their bits dipped in salt. Man, its just taken me a day and a half to get rid of some real real nasty browser jackers and popup **** - "only the best" Its a right ******* because it pulls all sorts of tricks to re install itself and everything.
It wouldnt be so bad if it was above board and had an uninstall program but its bloody obvious that they wanted it to stay there.
Thank god for Firefox, never usually get this crap, thats why it took me so long to remove it
They really do need a good kicking (to death) in my opinion.
It wouldnt be so bad if it was above board and had an uninstall program but its bloody obvious that they wanted it to stay there.
Thank god for Firefox, never usually get this crap, thats why it took me so long to remove it
They really do need a good kicking (to death) in my opinion.
19 January 2005 | 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisB
Some of these suckers hook into part of the registry away from the usual HKLM\Run and thus are much harder to track down. The exact key escapes me now though.
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19 January 2005 | 04:27 PM
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Because they do more than infect and replicate. It's the law, if we - McAfee - call them Viruses we get taken to court. A lot of them have licence agreements, which makes things worse. That's not to say that you agreed to the licence, but could you prove in court that you didn't see it?
Originally Posted by messiah
Can't see why they're not classed as a virus (trojan, worm or whatever) TBH - they're no less annoying...
19 January 2005 | 04:36 PM
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From: "Every one should have a friend called Dave - they're the human equivalent of a Swiss Army knife!!"
Sounds like I have the same spyware/jacker type thing. My Sygate firewall didnt even stop the little f****r. Going to run CWSSHREDDER tonight to see if I can sort it out. It's so annoying, Sygate flashes up that my homepage has been changed and I have to restore it every 5 minutes. 
19 January 2005 | 04:54 PM
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From: "Every one should have a friend called Dave - they're the human equivalent of a Swiss Army knife!!"
Originally Posted by ChristianR
have u tried the m$ one? seems very good
19 January 2005 | 04:58 PM
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the MS one did pick up about 120 pieces of normal spyware, and dealt with it, but not this CWS turd.
Problem is the user isnt the worlds best so give it a week and it will be infected again.
Prodriva = here
Problem is the user isnt the worlds best so give it a week and it will be infected again.
Prodriva = here
19 January 2005 | 05:03 PM
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From: "Every one should have a friend called Dave - they're the human equivalent of a Swiss Army knife!!"
Originally Posted by Stueyb
the MS one did pick up about 120 pieces of normal spyware, and dealt with it, but not this CWS turd.
Problem is the user isnt the worlds best so give it a week and it will be infected again.
Prodriva = here
Problem is the user isnt the worlds best so give it a week and it will be infected again.
Prodriva = here
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