ADWARE/SPYWARE EMBEDDED IN FREE REPUBLIC?

Self | 11/26/04 | Dixie Sass

[dixie sass]

What is with the underlined words/phrases in FR?

[Splatter]

My favorite (not free) spyware/malware tool is Xblock.. http://www.xblock.com/ . It has a bunch of applications that others scanners don't offer. I love it. This is not an ad, just a happy user.

[FairOpinion]

Did you get Spywareblaster too?

[dfwright]

I would suggest that you are not getting the spyware from FR, since no one else seems to be, but rather the spyware just isn't getting removed from your system. It may be that FR is the only web page you are accessing that has the "keywords" that trigger the underlined advertising.

[Martin Tell]

Using MSIE?

Yeah. Think it's time to switch to Mozilla? IE has been slow as Christmas for me lately anyway.

[Splatter]

dixie sass.. I used to have that problem too, but when I started wiping throughly all the brown lines disappeared! Try it.

[QwertyKPH]

I think I found her picture!

[Pajamajan]

"What's with the underlined words/phrases in FR"

Unnngh..

[tob2]

Have Ad Ware and run it every time I get off the internet. It's amazing how 12 or more objects can be spying on you in a few minutes! Is there anyway a person can stop from being spied on?

[ChicagoRighty]

>>I think I found her picture!<<

Stop it! I can't handle it any longer. I'm creating brown lines of my own!

[Squantos]

Hmmmm brown above the line ?!?!? Indicator the story is more BS than FR can stand maybe ?

[holymoly]

Yeah. Think it's time to switch to Mozilla? IE has been slow as Christmas for me lately anyway.

Netscape 7.01 (Mozilla) is my primary browser. Cookie manager, pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, better security (I.E. no ActiveX) make it far superior to MSIE (in my opinion.)

"Off By One" is a very small download, has no "install" - so no registry changes (just unzip to a folder & run), no disk cache, cookies in a single file which can be deleted at any time. It also has no Java or plugins, which, at times, is rather nice. ;)

Mozilla/Firefox (at least) is certainly worth a look, and there's nothing wrong w. having multiple browsers on your system.

[Syncro]

It's John's new TrollAlert^tm software.

Are you new here???

LOL, ducking...

[QwertyKPH]

What happened to my browser?

[mercy]

WHAT on earth are you all talking about?!

[ChicagoRighty]

I switched to Mozilla's Firefox after seeing it mentioned here on FR.

I am having great success with it. And after being a total MS shop for the past 12 years, that means a lot.

[ChicagoRighty]

forget brown lines... that's a flat line

[JoJo Gunn]

If you can handle zip files, get this and run it. It'll make a Notepad file of everything that's running in the background. Copy and paste it here. (It's a small file, less than 60 kb's).

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/startuplist.zip

[Splatter]

Here is waht you have to do:

1. Get some good spyware programs.
2. Drop AOL
3. Use Firefox
4. Move your mouse, really fast, up and down, up and down.

[QwertyKPH]

is this mouse fast enough?

[Syncro]

Well, with the software trolls will find all kinds of things linking to wierd sites to keep them busy...

Have Mercy, mercy...

It came from www.fakesoftwareforjokerstoposttodixie.com

Ok, ok I was just joking with dixie.