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Tenacious Spyware Problem (Vanity)
6/16/04
| Me, Myself, and I
Posted on 06/16/2004 10:42:22 AM PDT by Born Conservative
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To: Born Conservative
I am pinging this open because I have been days trying to eliminate belt.exe and its associated files and decided tonight to manually delete them per Symantec's instructions; when I opened the hidden files I saw that belt.exe had been last modified 8/13/2003; the only thing is, I bought this cpu new 02/12/2004.
In other words, either CompUSA sold me a refurbished computer without wiping the drive or COMPAQ pre-installed a trojan adware pgm.
Anybody have any ideas about this before I yell at CompUSA?
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posted on
06/19/2004 7:22:00 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(lust; pure, visceral groin-grinding, sweat-popping, heart-pounding staccato bursts of shooting stars)
To: Born Conservative
I am pinging this open because I have been days trying to eliminate belt.exe and its associated files and decided tonight to manually delete them per Symantec's instructions; when I opened the hidden files I saw that belt.exe had been last modified 8/13/2003; the only thing is, I bought this cpu new 02/12/2004.
In other words, either CompUSA sold me a refurbished computer without wiping the drive or COMPAQ pre-installed a trojan adware pgm.
Anybody have any ideas about this before I yell at CompUSA?
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posted on
06/19/2004 7:22:07 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(lust; pure, visceral groin-grinding, sweat-popping, heart-pounding staccato bursts of shooting stars)
To: Born Conservative
Consider these...
CyberPatrol -- blocks undesirable sites ($39/year)
SpyBot (free)
Ad-Aware (free)
Norton or McAFee Anti-Virus (~$40/yr)
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posted on
06/19/2004 7:25:42 PM PDT
by
Tax Government
(Democrats are waging undeclared civil war against our system of government.)
To: Old Professer
104
posted on
06/19/2004 7:29:52 PM PDT
by
Freemeorkillme
(Strike at the heart of the enemy! Support your conservative media now by picking up the pen!)
To: Born Conservative
"System Restore to an earlier time." Agreed, just restore to a time previous to your son using the computer.
That is the easiest and safest way to get your computer back.
To: Old Professer
The only reason I'm pinging you is that I've participated in any number of spyware threads and updated my FR homepage to include and bloviate about my spyware prowess :)
I do this spyware thing daily, and have updated my homepage here on FR to reflect it.
-Mal
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06/22/2004 8:49:47 PM PDT
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Malsua
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