The Spyware Revolution!

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[wienerschnitzel]

Ive seen 300+ once.

my dad kept wondering why his laptop was so slow and why ads would pop up out of nowhere. he said he hit yes to one of thoes pop up that asks you if its okay to install something (ive seen a lot of gain supported ones). I think he must of said yes to more then one. i had to run adaware and spybot over and over. i then had to boot into dos to delete stuff. then i had to run adaware again.

recently, a week after getting his new laptop he hit yes again. i almost threw it against the wall. i have used adaware, spybot, nod32 and housecall and i still cannot remove whatever sets the homepage back to mfs search. and i also found 3 viruses when i ran nod32. all in one week. wtf? is he really my dad?

[james_bond_rulez]

Originally posted by sharedholder@28 April 2004 - 03:11
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http://www.joeuser.com/index.asp?c=1&AID=13833&u=0
does it scan keyloggers? :huh:

[zapjb]

My friends computer had over 150 pieces of spyware. The removal process took 45 minutes&#33;

[baccyman]

Originally posted by wienerschnitzel@28 April 2004 - 13:29
Ive seen 300+ once.

my dad kept wondering why his laptop was so slow and why ads would pop up out of nowhere. he said he hit yes to one of thoes pop up that asks you if its okay to install something (ive seen a lot of gain supported ones). I think he must of said yes to more then one. i had to run adaware and spybot over and over. i then had to boot into dos to delete stuff. then i had to run adaware again.

recently, a week after getting his new laptop he hit yes again. i almost threw it against the wall. i have used adaware, spybot, nod32 and housecall and i still cannot remove whatever sets the homepage back to mfs search. and i also found 3 viruses when i ran nod32. all in one week. wtf? is he really my dad?
you could try using cw shreader to get your home page sorted out . here is a link to the page scroll down untill you see it .
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

then you could try using spyware blaster to get rid of the spyware. here is a link for that .

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

[james_bond_rulez]

Originally posted by james_bond_rulez+28 April 2004 - 04:09--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (james_bond_rulez @ 28 April 2004 - 04:09)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-sharedholder@28 April 2004 - 03:11
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does it scan keyloggers? :huh: [/b][/quote]
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[4th gen]

My cousin had 320 items showing up in Spybot (with definitions which were about a month out of date) and after that cleaning, he had another 45 or so in Ad-aware. Needless to say, the puter was running a bit faster after they were cleaned out :lol:

[Xero Grid]

That&#39;s nothing. I had to fix a computer with 11 trojans with over 15,000+ traces of spyware. No joke. Worst I&#39;ve ever seen. Every spyware scanner I used kept stoppiing until I cleaned a little of it out first with X-Cleaner. It lowered it significantly, but it was still in the 9,000&#39;s. I swear, people gotta stop going to those porn sites, man. :lol:

-- Xero Grid --

[james_bond_rulez]

we are bullshitting or are we just playing with numbers here? :huh:

I have zero spy ware present on my system...on spybot and adware

[Xero Grid]

Originally posted by james_bond_rulez@28 April 2004 - 12:29
we are bullshitting or are we just playing with numbers here? :huh:

I have zero spy ware present on my system...on spybot and adware
I don&#39;t know.
Well, I use SpySweeper myself, but that&#39;s in conjunction with HOSTS file protection and restricting certain domains in my internet settings (info in my sig :lol: ).

But, I wasn&#39;t joking. There were over 15,000 traces. I can&#39;t remember how much software it was categorized into, but it was a lot. It was lucky it was an XP machine because otherwise I would&#39;ve just formatted the hard drive.

-- Xero Grid --

[true_neo]

Fucking hell, 15000+&#33;?
Sheesh.... Is it even possible for the puter to surf the net with that many programs transferring your info to just about every fucker on the net? :lol:
*Strokes SpyBot Immunize, and your Supertrick, XG ;) *

Worst cases I have seen:
My friend back in my old home town.
I left there with a win95 machine and no knowledge, came back after spending 4 months in this place reading everything about nothing (and nothing about everything).
I installed Ad-Aware and SpyBot on his comp.
God damn, now THAT was a spyware fuckfest. he had almost 1 000 items in BOTH programs, had to reboot the comp about 5 times to get rid of it all.

Second, there was a friend of mine who asked for Symantec AV Corp for a friend, and his total virus count was well above 1 000.



Some people should just return their puter :lol:
(And dont call me a n00b hater, I am well aware of the fact that I handed in my comp cos of ONE FILE that used 100 % of the CPU, which I at that point had no idea how to see, even less so delete (1st month of this comp&#39;s life)) :frusty:

[4th gen]

Originally posted by james_bond_rulez@28 April 2004 - 16:29
we are bullshitting or are we just playing with numbers here? :huh:

I have zero spy ware present on my system...on spybot and adware
I wasn&#39;t bullshitting :lol:

He&#39;s only 13 but he goes to the stupid flash games sites and stuff, goes to any links people give him on msn. I&#39;ve tried to tell him but he never listens

[DanB]

:lol: :lol:

I did the same at my parents house for them.


Spybot had a field day there was all sorts of shite on there. My mum tried to blame it on my little brothers :rolleyes:

[Smith]

103 is my record :01:

[Illuminati]

Originally posted by sharedholder@28 April 2004 - 13:11
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http://www.joeuser.com/index.asp?c=1&AID=13833&u=0
Just read it. To be honest though, I&#39;m not surprised at Stardock&#39;s stance on spyware, mainly because of Brad&#39;s involvement in SD&#39;s customers - the community spirit that Stardock has with users of its software is pretty rare.

Following on from this article, here&#39;s something I found in the Comments section of that article - An article on the website of Lavasoft (creators of Ad-Aware) about leaving their own anti-spyware consortium. Not sure myself but opinions on this article could likely be split:
Lavasoft Leave Anti-Spyware Consortium (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/news/20031216.shtml)

[fkdup74]

Originally posted by baccy_man@28 April 2004 - 08:06
you could try using cw shreader to get your home page sorted out . here is a link to the page scroll down untill you see it .
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

then you could try using spyware blaster to get rid of the spyware. here is a link for that .

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
nope, sorry....
spywareblaster dont remove ANYTHING...
it prevents it from installing

do you actually use the stuff you recommend? :huh:

[silent VI]

I swear, people gotta stop going to those porn sites, man.&nbsp;



i surf porn sites like 2 or so hours in a day for as long as i can remeber, and i have yet been infected with a ware of anykind, people have to stop goin to the "Free" sites and stick with the members areas no prblems there

[Xero Grid]

No, I meant "those" porn sites. :lol:
The ones that are like bad relatives and invite themselves into your computer and change your homepage. The ones that people can&#39;t resist going to because they are advertised on a pop-up. :rolleyes: :lol:

-- Xero Grid --

[silent VI]

Originally posted by Xero Grid@29 April 2004 - 05:55
No, I meant "those" porn sites. :lol:
The ones that are like bad relatives and invite themselves into your computer and change your homepage. The ones that people can&#39;t resist going to because they are advertised on a pop-up. :rolleyes: :lol:

-- Xero Grid --
:P yea the free ones