You think you have spyware? LOL beat this ;)

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-02-17 07:22pm

One image says it all

Not my computer

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2004-02-17 08:14pm

Weatherbug, Gator and AOl will get you that high

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-02-17 08:59pm

Pretty much what all 8 of the computers at work looked like, before I got a cracking and cleaning.

StimNeuro · Post by **StimNeuro** » 2004-02-18 03:57am

Heh, my roommate had either 1800 or 8000 pieces of spyware detected by Ad-Aware. I honestly don't remember which one it was.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-02-18 06:23am

fuck AIM alone will get you quite a bit...

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » 2004-02-18 07:08pm

Holy Shit! That's crazy! How long has this system been up?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-02-18 07:27pm

wow. i only had around 1200 unrecognized processes when i ran ad-aware on my laptop. i'm impressed.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-02-18 09:51pm

That's peanuts. Every single computer that I've checked for SpyWare that had any at all, 90% of the time had 2000 or more objects detected. Sometimes a week after the initial treatment (the user couldn't be convinced to stop browsing that stupid horoscope website

)

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-02-18 09:59pm

Slartibartfast wrote:That's peanuts. Every single computer that I've checked for SpyWare that had any at all, 90% of the time had 2000 or more objects detected. Sometimes a week after the initial treatment (the user couldn't be convinced to stop browsing that stupid horoscope website )

With IE.

Get her on Mozilla and one can browse that stupid whoroscope site till its server melts!

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-02-18 10:14pm

That would be a permanent solution. I only care that their machines work properly while I need them, and then I'm out of there and they can all go to hell!!!

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2004-02-18 10:20pm

Ive got that Ad Aware 6.0. Came with AoL 9.0. seems to be somewhat helpful. Although I think I've now picked some mean shit up. Pop ups everywhere.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-02-19 03:32am

I'm amazed that it still ran with that much shit installed....though I imagine most of that was "data miner" cookies.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2004-02-19 08:14am

Slartibartfast wrote:That's peanuts. Every single computer that I've checked for SpyWare that had any at all, 90% of the time had 2000 or more objects detected. Sometimes a week after the initial treatment (the user couldn't be convinced to stop browsing that stupid horoscope website )

Use SpywareGuard. This sets the kill bit for an ActiveX ID string and data mining cookies! Perfect for making sure the computer is never infected in the 1st place.

Adding another browser doesnt help, they can just switch back to IE because they dont like to change.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-02-19 11:29am

I usually run Spybot Search & Destroy off my USB keychain drive on all public school computers I can to clean them out. They are often infected with all sorts of garbage.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-02-19 05:11pm

Slartibartfast wrote:That's peanuts. Every single computer that I've checked for SpyWare that had any at all, 90% of the time had 2000 or more objects detected. Sometimes a week after the initial treatment (the user couldn't be convinced to stop browsing that stupid horoscope website )

So block it via the hosts file.

127.0.0.1 www.whateverthewebsiteurlis.com

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-02-19 06:12pm

phongn wrote:I usually run Spybot Search & Destroy off my USB keychain drive on all public school computers I can to clean them out. They are often infected with all sorts of garbage.

If I can, I prefer to just boot Knoppix off the CD-ROM. I'm getting sick and tired of public Windows terminals...

Oh, and by the way, many of those thousands of unrecognized objects are simply cookies from, for example, advertising.com or doubleclick.net. Internet Explorer is rather lax about cookies (and everything else for that matter -- and it doesn't help when a stupid sysadmin locks out the Internet control panel when it's set to the low security level.)

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-02-19 08:05pm

ggs wrote:Use SpywareGuard. This sets the kill bit for an ActiveX ID string and data mining cookies! Perfect for making sure the computer is never infected in the 1st place.

Adding another browser doesnt help, they can just switch back to IE because they dont like to change.

Vertigo1 wrote:So block it via the hosts file.

127.0.0.1 www.whateverthewebsiteurlis.com

Where's the fun in that? When they come beggin me to clean their machines, and I do it, and two days later they're full of garbage again (for doing what I explicitly said they shouldn't - like browsing garbage sites) I get to yell at them and call them names.

Son of the Suns · Post by **Son of the Suns** » 2004-02-20 06:47pm

adaware is the shit

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-02-20 06:48pm

Son of the Suns wrote:adaware is the shit

Search & Destroy is better and doesn't require payment to unlock its advanced features.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2004-02-20 09:12pm

I don't know, Ad-aware got a lot of stuff that spyware search & destroy missed for me.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-02-22 01:41am

The solution? Use both. That's what I do.

Btw, my dad's computer looked like that when I got him to install Ad-Aware.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin