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Real0ne -> RE: Spyware Caution (2/17/2006 7:08:07 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SirKenin
This is really old news, but many people might not be aware of this nonetheless. 90% of My residential business is cleaning this crap off of people's computers, so that will tell you something. There is a website devoted to this that I use quite frequently... http://www.pchell.com/ If you are having problems with your computers or need any type of removal tools, that is where to go.
If you use XP, a combination of SP2, Microsoft Antispyware Beta and Spybot Seek and Destroy are deadly effective. That is all you need. You do not need to pay these con artists that want to extort money out of you to use their programs that other people have released for free.
Many of these things are installed with ActiveX. This is only available in Internet Explorer. However, if you use your head you can protect your computer and still use ActiveX, which is quite necessary for a lot of the multimedia and interactive content on the internet. If you are lazy you can download Opera or Firefox (although Opera kills Firefox for speed).
The rest use javascript, which Opera and Firefox are just as vulnerable to. This is where the MS AS Beta and Spybot come in handy. If you are going to use those, though, you might as well stick with IE. Why confuse the issue and add more junk to your PC?
The most important think is to remember that nothing in life is free. Any idiot website that says FREE SMILEYS!!! is conning you. Look at it this way. 99.97548% of the internet population is in it to line their pockets. There is nothing in it for them to offer anything for free. Make sure you read between the lines... Especially AVOID BEARSHARE and KAZAA. Do NOT download these products. They pollute your PC with garbage that chokes the life out of your internet connection. They are garbage. Avoid Smiley Central. Avoid Screensavers.com like the plague. Avoid any warez, hacking and cracking sites like astalavista, which leads you to a bunch of sites that disguise spyware and vicious virii like cracks and serial numbers. Avoid any of those "free" porn galleries and anything that says "banned". They will download javascript on your computer that you will wish you never ran across.
The only antispyware program worth mentioning other than what I have already mentioned is Ewido. That one you do have to pay for, but it simply destroys any other paid-for product out there. It also has a free mode that will do scans, just not real time protection. It is deadly effective. I highly recommend it.
yes i ditto everything you have said here! likewise much of my work is the same.
i didnt read every post on so this may have been said before.
i am kind of ballsy on the net. all i have is a firewall, no anti virus and no spy or trogan ware.
if you had a key logger you would get all these posts that you would have to rifle thru only to never find one credit card number even tho i use these computers to order online :) curious?
another thing i do not do is use outlook or any of the popular email agents as these are what hackers go for because they get the biggest audience.
If it has not been mentioned there are a lot of people who put virus software and trogan/adware software on their computer and "falsely" think they are protected!
This is incorrect. you are only protected against known viruses.
if i were to release a virus today that can make it past your hueristics scanner you will be infected and there is nothing you can do about it.
Why? because once people get the virus they send it in to norton or who ever who writes the fix for it, then after that point in time you are protected!
Many of my customers have no clu this is the case and in some instances get malicious viruses that wipe their computer out and they cant figure out why. thats why.
So how do i work around the spybots?
i have all the names and passwords in an encrypted file on my computer.
i copy paste everything into the browser so no keystrokes go out. part of that file is the alphabet in single numbers so i can create new private numbers and add them to the file.
Now to the best of my knowledge there is no spyware that goes deeper than that to try and root out cc numbers but if someone knows of one do let me know please because even tho i have yet to have trouble i am sure this will become a future change i will need to make at some point.
as for viruses, i go all over on the net and i am sure i have a few but nothing that is noticeable at this point.
i reload my computers roughly ever 2 - 3 years and it is rare like once in the last 4 years i have a problem with this system.
then finally i do have one computer that i keep loaded to the hilt and that is my naughty puter.
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