spyware

[Jinxxd]

hey erm, not sure if this is in the right place (or if i even have the right site 4 askin this!), but..........................

how the hell do i get this feckin stuff off my comp?

and WHERE the hell did it come from in the 1st place!?!

 

[JinXD]

Spyware comes from poor administration of your system. I'm sure google will help you find an appropriate application to remove most of it......

 

[Remote]

it's the wrong place yes

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

&

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

 

[Jinxxd]

cheers guys, i think someone at my uni's IT department mentioned that spybot thingy (v computer minded aas you can tell!) but wanted to double check as they hav messed up more than a few of my fellow stuuuudent comps since i got here.

They give ppl stupid firewalls then mess up thge rest of their comps

 

[smcd]

Then there's http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ as well, its free (personal edition) or you can buy it. Though I got hit with some crap the other day that used a MS Help exploit (one of the recent ones) to take over my about:blank - spybot, adaware, and MS AntiSpyware all failed to detect it, and even after resetting my defaults using MS AntiSpyware and deleting the DLLs (all the ones i could find)... the thing kept coming back! I had to use ghost to restore a previous good point. Sucked severely, but getting a $20 copy of Norton Utilities 2003 was a decent investment for Ghost... much better than XP's "system restore" - just make a backup image once a week or so.

 

[Gorxon]

Work, work, work...

Moving...

 

[Jinxxd]

erm i used spybot and started up my comp in safe mode and was able to get rid without it duplicating everytime i deleted it. well when i say 'i' i was stood behind the person doing it watching!

 

[Jinxxd]

erm i used spybot and started up my comp in safe mode and was able to get rid without it duplicating everytime i deleted it. well when i say 'i' i was stood behind the person doing it watching!

 

[Eagle]

Spybot is good, Firefox prevents a lot (but not all) of the spyware by itself. Most spyware is designed to penetrate the exremely flawed Internet Explorer.

 

[Jinxxd]

Spybot is good, Firefox prevents a lot (but not all) of the spyware by itself. Most spyware is designed to penetrate the exremely flawed Internet Explorer.

yeah mine was in iexplore, tiz sorted now n spybot is on my comp 4 good now!