Spyware Found On Kentucky Sheriff's Office Computers

Officer.com ^ | February 1st, 2005 | Associated Press

[holymoly]

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure:

Ad-Aware SE
Using Ad-Aware SE

Spybot - Search & Destroy
Using Spybot - S&D

Javacool Software (SpywareBlaster & SpywareGuard)
Using SpywareBlaster
Using SpywareGuard

[frogjerk]

Spyware Found On Kentucky Sheriff's Office Computers

Was it IE?

[theDentist]

Sounds like we walked into the middle of a "Movie of the Week".

[RetiredArmy]

"We wuz shocked, shocked I tell you!"

[WoodstockCat]

gee..think a little porn-site surfing might have been going on during business hours?

[coconutt2000]

The most secure computer is turned off, unplugged, and locked up in a safe.

[L98Fiero]

If this is news, I have a ground breaker for ya.

I worked for several years at different Corps of Engineers sites. Their users PCs are ATE UP with spyware.

[aynrandfreak]

They must've gone to Drudgereport.com

[newheart]

Wow. Must be a parallel universe. The same thing happened in Oklahoma City. And by truly mysterious coincedence Oklahoma City's Sheriff is also named John Whetsel. What are the odds of that?

[CarrotAndStick]

Use Scan Spyware®. You won't use anything else. The rest can't detect Agobot. Only Scan Spyware® did. I rest my case.

[DainBramage]

A reserve deputy with computer training helped clean the software from the computers and cut remote access from the county's network to sheriff's computers because of the possibility current or former information systems employees could have installed the software, Whetsel said.

Oklahoma City Sherrif with remote access viewing turned on and state of the art screen capture software installed.

Could it be Alphabet Boys trying to keep tabs on anybody involved in the bombing investigation?

[Coldwater Creek]

Doesn't surprise me one bit. I fully expect the next attack to be in the hinterland's.

[CarrotAndStick]

Scan Spyware® http://www.scanspyware.net

[DB]

I've found this one to be much more affective: Microsoft AntiSpyware

I know... It sounds like an oxymoron... But it does work...

[holymoly]

Use Scan Spyware®. You won't use anything else. The rest can't detect Agobot. Only Scan Spyware® did. I rest my case.

According to Sophos and F-Secure, Agobot is a virus, not spyware.

[DainBramage]

This is installed monitoring software according to the article, not just trojans an bots.

[holymoly]

From what I've read, Microsofts' AntiSpyware is for Windows 2000/XP only.

There are still many people running 98SE, ME, etc.

[demlosers]

Oh, I sooooooo shocked!

All cop shops have spyware

[demlosers]

Arrrg.

I = I'm

[general_re]

Nah, anything the feds deploy likely wouldn't be detectable by off-the-shelf spyware/AV scanners - can't have the bad guys catching you out that easily.