Spyware problem.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2004-01-28 12:36am

Ok, I was poking around on Underdogs last week and I apparently picked up a annoying piece of spyware from one of their pop-ups. It changed my homepage to one of theirs which pulls up several pop up, one that keeps throwing them out every few minutes that I have to use task manager to close. Only thing is it's seemed to have shut off the ability for me to change my homepage and I'm not sure how to fix it, I updated SS&D and ran it, but it didn't help.

And ofcourse the site it changed my homepage to is one advertising a anti-spyware program.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-01-28 01:31am

Who wants to bet that the anti-spyware program they're advertising is actually spyware, with the ability to remove one other piece of spyware?

Dark Hate · Post by **Dark Hate** » 2004-01-28 01:44am

Well knowing how annoying spyware is i use 2 different programs on my comps. Spybot search and destroy and I also use Ad-aware. One picks up what the other does not.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-01-28 03:57am

Read the announcment:

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=17610

Loads of anty spyware there.

Personaly I recomend that you install and run these programs:

Adaware Spyware Remover.

Spybot Search & Destroy Also a spyware remover.

Install update and scan with those two. The work great together and complement eatchother wo problem.

Then run Spywareblaster To prevent spyware from installing.

Questions? reply or PM me

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » 2004-01-28 07:10pm

For those of you in a corporate environment, I recommend PestPatrol. It has automation features that are sweet. I use it at home, and it traps about 20 spyware-attempts per day. Its sick.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-01-29 10:32am

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(I have adaware/SSD I go like this: Run SSD, (It archives files) then, run adaware, which is supplemental, finding shit SSD missed and recognizing the Archives as spyware and eliminating it as well, but the pest patrol sounds NEAT!)

as an aside, i've not noticed a decrease in spyware attacks with the usage of mozilla. Double yoo tee eff? (I still get copious quantities of popups, too.)

Not a hint of unlicensed software requests, Chardok- Phong

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-01-29 10:52am

Chardok wrote:as an aside, i've not noticed a decrease in spyware attacks with the usage of mozilla. Double yoo tee eff? (I still get copious quantities of popups, too.)

Doh half the reason to use moz/fb is the exelent popup stoper.

Under tools / Options /web features / check the block popus checkbox.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-01-29 11:00am

Thank you, Faram! I'm still a Mozzy vigrin, so perhaps tonight i'll spend some time getting my proverbial cherry popped. (BTW, I like mozilla because of the cool T-rez looking logo thingy. I'm a sucker for clever marketing ploys....God i'm an american....)

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2004-01-29 09:49pm

I've gone on and off with Mozilla, at first I like it, then when I start loosing all my bookmarks once a week and get fed up and ditch it.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-01-29 09:56pm

Opera is also good for blocking popups; I used it once and never went back to either IE or Mozilla.