RE: just blowing off a little steamabout xp

Yeah...I usually get by with Adaware, Spybot, and MS Antispyware, run in
sequence a couple times. I've had a couple of spyware infestations that
were just unbeatable, though. Somewhere out there there's at least one
little twerp who's cost me a lot of time. =20

Was interesting...the friends of mine who're on Xandros (a Debian-based
non-free distro) just upgraded to Business Edition 3. Installs with
antivirus and firewall by default. Plus it recognized the NIC
immediately, something I'd had to recompile the kernel to deal with on
version 2 (blech...I'm a networker, not a programmer).

Funny, this computer world. Computers are complex, no? Somebody has to
deal with the complexity. Micro$oft has proven rather inept at it, but
what I've seen from attempts in other OS's to be "as easy as Windows"
hasn't proven much better, honestly. That leaves it to the user and/or
the user's consultant, and odds are the user isn't all that interested.
Not that I blame them; my lawyer friend is about as interested in
learning computers as I am in learning law. So that leaves us
constantly shaking our heads over ineptitude in the software side AND
Stupid User Tricks. =20

*sigh* So much for philosophy...back to work now.

Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf
Of Piet van Weel
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:13 AM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: RE: just blowing off a little steamabout xp

Wow, only 4 hours. You're lucky.=20
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

=20

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

=20

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

=20

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

=20

Piet

=20

-----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

=20

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

=20

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).

=20

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