Posted on 12/21/2004 2:39:48 AM PST by goldstategop
Agree. I keep wondering why Gates and his company are not the object of serious legal and legislative assault. All of their software products are, when used as directed (And expected I might add) simply defective. The problem is these "Defects" are really not such from Gate's standpoint and are engineered into the software. In this sinister process they are 1) Not disclosed to the consumer and 2) Exist for the sole enrichment of Microsoft itself or other Third Parties and to the detriment of Microsoft's customers.
Like you, I suspect Micro and it's cohorts have spent millions lobbying our lawmakers to ignore this issue - All to the enormous detriment of Computer and Internet users worldwide.
There - Now I've vented! :-)
Absolutly. Since I installed Firefox, I've had no spam or pop-up problems.
If you're calling W for assistance you're barking up a wrong tree. Do you really expect W to be concerned about the integrity of your or my computer if he doesn't even give a rip about the security and integrity of our borders?
I tried that when I first set up the system. The virus software was set up to download automatically and so was Windows Update but she's on dialup and nothing would get finished before she disconnected. I told her that when she dials up in the future, before she goes to a website or checks her mail, she must update the virus scanner, no exceptions. I'm also going to tell her that if this happens again she will either learn how to fix it herself or pay a tech $100 to $300 to fix it. If I thought she could learn something different I would install Mozilla in it but there is no way.
We have three desktops and my laptop at our house and each one is setup to do all of it automatically but I still run the spyware updates on all of them weekly.
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Hey, y'all...I need some advice: I think I have what I need to protect my computer, but I'm not sure.
My computer is 6 yrs old, uses Windows 98, I just recently downloaded the Mozilla-Firefox browser, & my computer is a slow 56k....& the 3 programs I'm using against spyware makes it even SLOWER. It's really aggravating, & I dunno what to do about it (I'm definitely NOT a computer geek!). Here's what I have:
-- Spyware Doctor,
-- Ad-Aware SE Personal, &
-- Spybot Search & Destroy
Is that ENOUGH? How often should I run these programs? Do y'all have anymore advice? THANK YOU very much! :-)
Delete Spyware Doctor and get Spyware Blaster and apply immunization to Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. Then get Eric L. Howes' IE Spy-ad to add thousands of malicious websites to the Registry so they can't run and execute hostile code on your computer. https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/main.htm
Yeah, I've had my homepage hijacked too! It may have been CoolWeb, that name sounds familiar (it was a few months ago). I'm scared sh*tless about this! What do I do? Please notice my other post up above.
Whats worse, a browser hijacker or a FR thread hijacker?
Download CWS Shredder and run it. After that, download Lava Soft Ad-aware and Spybot S&D and scan for malware. Remove anything they find. Then download Spywareblaster to keep the malware from being ever being reinstalled on your computer. Finally, get IE Spyad to lock down your Internet Explorer browser so malicious sites can't run anything that could either install spyware or harm your computer.
Spyware is no different than hacking into someones computer and stealing all their data. People who created them or use them should be prosecuted as theifs.
Do you routinely de-frag your machine? At least every 6 months or so?
This will definitely keep your speed up to par.
I've had very good luck with hijackthis, AdAware, Spybot Search and Destroy, and F-Prot. Sometimes, I even have to trick the spyware by making it think the system is already infected. However, some of my customers require a complete re-install of the OS. On some occasions, the same customer comes back 3 days later with an even worse spyware infection, even though his system had been completely wiped and reloaded. Lately, I've been creating image backups of systems with a program called Acronis True Image. Ultimately, it all comes down to a backup solution of some sort. Saving important files to CD or DVD first, then creating an image of the entire partition containing the OS.
Windows security ping
"GET RID OF INTERNET EXPLORER AND MOVE TO FIREFOX"
I second that. Haven't had a pest in months.
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