Spyware-adware removal help needed (yet another vanity)

March 8, 2008 | processing please hold

[TommyDale]

Yes, finish then reboot and run the tests again. Then tell me what it says.

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SpywareBlaster & Spybot together

If those I've chosen clash, I'll go your route.I still don't know if mine will work together. I hate being illiterate on topics such as this.

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Ok. I’ll do it now.

[TommyDale]

Those two programs I recommended will work fine if you run them one at a time. NEVER try to run them simultaneously.

[ShadowAce]

I gave my kids (aged 10 and 6 at the time) their own user names and passwords on my linux box, then left them alone.

They don't touch the Windows box much anymore.

Now my wife is using the Linux tower more and more, and relegating Windows to just one or two games. Maybe it's time I converted that old P2 to a DSL (or Puppy) machine...

[TommyDale]

And the mere fact that the first program found 135 items, and the second program found 456 more means that one single program can never find them all. Using these two in combination is proven to work best.

[ShadowAce]

I'm trying to establish an IPSec tunnel between two Fedora boxes,...

LOL! Yeah, that's a typical user problem. Of course! We should drop all development of Linux until the below-average user can install IPSec VPNs between two NATs.

[AFPhys]

I’ve installed several dozen new program for both Ubuntu and Fedora with no issues at all during the last three years. Before that, I concede your point. In addition, I would not be surprised if there were issues with less popular programs that haven’t been tested well.

That being said, most users will see NO problems at all.

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I’ve rebooted and ran the test again. It still says it has 456 total infections detected.

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NEVER try to run them simultaneously.

Understood. Thanks.

[AFPhys]

I think it is more a situation that one program doesn’t classify something as a problem (for example, your document history in MS Word - I think it’s debatable that such is a problem that should be removed or quarantined) that the other program does classify as a problem. When I go through the details of what these programs “find” I see many of them debatable as “problems”. I kind of wonder if they do a type of “one-ups-man-ship” to see how high a number of “problems” they can find. I suspect all the good ones will find and handle all the known real bad actors.

[TommyDale]

Let it clean them off.

[TommyDale]

Agreed. Many times it is merely “recently opened files”.

[AFPhys]

That’s what happened to me, too. Gave my daughter the keys to the Linux box, and she seldom wants to go to XP any more except for a couple games (We actually use the Win98 box more since it is so fast!) If I spent a bit more time with WINE or WINEX, those would probably work fine on the Linux box, too.

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Let it clean them off.

I don't understand.

[AFPhys]

I’ve been considering this USB option, too. Just plug in to your friend’s computer, reboot, and you have your own ‘puter on the road! An attractive thought.

[AFPhys]

He’s suggesting you do the option #3 in post#92: Remove

(I’m gone now... good luck ... If you decide to put on SpywareBlaster later, you won’t have any such questions, I believe... just answer “yes” to “enable” all protection items and it will be done... I doubt you will go to any site that you find it essential to enable such things as “FreeScratchAndWin” or “CometCursor”... though you could ... LOL)

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Does this work on FireFox?

I have in the browsers section, 'msn'--I don't use msn and in default search page, msn again.

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Thank you. Trying to get this figured out is already trying my nerves.

Like in that movie, Baby Boom, when the actress said, not verbatim, "I don't care where the water comes from, I just want to turn on my faucet and have water." I wish I could remember the line correctly.

That's how I would like my programs to work. I don't want to know how they work, just that they work. lolol

[TommyDale]

The choices again?
Remove, etc.