RE: just blowing off a little steamabout xp

Wow, only 4 hours. You're lucky.
I generally use a combination of:

Avast! Virus Scanner (Free for Home Use)

Spybot (Ver 1.4)

Spyblaster

Lavasoft Adware with PLVX2 plugin

CCleaner

HiJack

TaskManager16

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

Microsoft Anti-Spyware Install

The worst computer that I have encountered has been a computer with OVER
6000 different Virus/Trojan files.

Personally the number one reason a windows computer gets
hacked/virused/spy(ad)wared is: 1. Lack of Microsoft Updates 2. No Virus
Protection 3. User Error

Aren't we glad we're using linux?!!

Piet

-----Original Message-----

From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf Of
Joshua Kugler

 Subject: Re: just blowing off a little steamabout xp

Two words: Lavasoft AdAware. Has worked every time for me.

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 00:05, Jim Gribbin wrote:

> I had to do something on my sisters computer running xp-home, sucker

> had so much spyware/adware on it it was hard to use. Damn thing has

> Norton Anti-Virus (updated) and whatever that adware program billy

> supplies. 445 pieces of adware/spyware on it. Only about 12 different

> ones, but so many multiple instances that it totaled 445.

>

> Spybot took care of most of them, but there was one called WinTools. I

> probably spent 30 min. researching it with Google. Then rebooting in

> Safe Mode, un-registering dll's, rebooting, attempting to delete

> files, rebooting into Safe-Mode to re-un-register because either they

> left one .dll out of the documentation or the spyware had another .dll

> that the hadn't mentioned and all had re-registered themselves,

> finally removing files, about an hour of finding and removing keys

> from the registry, then finally re-running Spybot to clean up. All

> kinds of fun.

>

> Total time spent: about 4 1/2 to 5 hours. 2+ on the last one alone.

>

> What I really loved about the last one was that according to the

> documentation on its removal, it was originally installed by ActiveX

> (for an ENHANCED Internet experience - horse hockey).

---------
To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
Received on Wed Jun 22 10:41:37 2005