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Top 10 "Most Unwanted" Spyware Named
TechWeb ^ | December 10, 2004 (2:48 PM EST) | Gregg Keizer,

Posted on 12/14/2004 6:22:01 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Mike Lin has some interesting stuff....you using any of it?


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I have heard good things about his stuff, but actually have not used any of it- yet!

101 posted on 12/15/2004 12:49:36 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trackball into the Dawn of Information...)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I stopped using FedEx online because Opera won't render it correctly (can't submit some of their forms without IE.) So I just bailed out to UPS/Opera.

Also, when I do need IE, I use the "browser" in Lotus Notes, which I think just does calls back through IE, but still, it seems like it's a more circuitous odd path for most nefarious hooks to be written that will actually work their dirty magic with this.

Guess I'm a successful "security by obscurity" proponent.


102 posted on 12/15/2004 7:34:14 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine

So you are wired into Lotus Notes pretty tightly?


103 posted on 12/15/2004 9:20:11 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

re: Lotus Notes....

No. Not really. I've just got archives of every email since 97 (R4.6?) and the full-text search of it is brilliantly fast. And for my memory, that's great for CYA. It doesn't render embedded stuff in email hardly at all, which I love, and when Windows crashes, or if my battery craps out before closing, it ALWAYS recovers the mail file without error (20-30GB)

When I'm on a conference call and my boss or another employee is blaming something on me or some other nonsense, I have many a time pulled a quick search that finds their email long before they could even start a query on Outlook (blech.) That has helped my career out more times than I can count.

For any piece of code written back then to carry me this far with only one new version upgrade (R5), well, it's the only instance of that I can think of!


104 posted on 12/15/2004 9:39:30 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine
Hey folks, what's the name of that one that sits in the background and makes fart noises randomly?

You talking about this?

105 posted on 12/15/2004 10:03:34 AM PST by COBOL2Java (If this isn't the End Times it certainly is a reasonable facsimile...)
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To: sam_paine
Yes, that sounds damn good.

Prior to picking up Lotus, IBM had a homegrown package called PROFS, a real kludge, kinda of worked, don't remember any decent search facility,a real maintenance nightmare for an IT staff, I thought.
106 posted on 12/15/2004 10:05:28 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

PROFS, IIRC, is a mainframe e-mail package.


107 posted on 12/15/2004 10:19:12 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

Yes, I know, I had installed it at several customer sites, I understand initially Lotus involved a mainframe as well.


108 posted on 12/15/2004 10:43:23 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Correction.
I thought lotus Notes involved a server computer of some size.


109 posted on 12/15/2004 10:45:03 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
I've probably spent 100 hours in the past year from the side effects and effort to defeat spyware.

WTF?

I can't believe you posted this and didn't even receive a single "Get a Mac, you loser" reply.

110 posted on 12/15/2004 10:49:29 AM PST by Recovering Hermit
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

P R O F S!

WOW! I used that in, what, 91-92!? And on an old VT100 (and then eventually a VT100 "window" uner OS/2!) Heehee. MAybe that's what's wrong with me.

You must be an old feller!


111 posted on 12/15/2004 12:11:19 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: valuesvaluesvalues

Didn't work. Nothing worked, and Xena's Guy does tech support for a living. We formatted C and that worked nicely.


113 posted on 12/15/2004 12:16:41 PM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: sam_paine

I ain't a young guy.....


114 posted on 12/15/2004 12:20:05 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: COBOL2Java

ROFL!


115 posted on 12/15/2004 12:21:10 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Xenalyte
We formatted C and that worked nicely.

Funny how that works so well!

If your backup methods and original CD's are in good shape.

116 posted on 12/15/2004 12:24:00 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

And they are, because we keep all our program discs and back up religiously.


117 posted on 12/15/2004 12:31:24 PM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I somehow picked up CoolWebSearch a few months ago. It was a bear to get rid of – I used several programs, first in regular mode then in safe mode as administrator. I had to go through the whole thing several times to finally get it under control, eventually going into the registry and replacing the program with a dummy to finally get rid of it.


118 posted on 12/15/2004 12:39:38 PM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: R. Scott

bump


119 posted on 12/15/2004 12:49:54 PM PST by -YYZ-
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Hello, I'm an ignorant person.

Has anyone ever heard of XoftSpy by Paretologic? Their ad is at:

http://www.paretologic.com/xoftspy/lp/14/

It says I can do it for free and remove bad things.

Is it really that simple? I can just click on the "Download Now" and just watch the computer?

I do not want to be closing or opening anything as I don't want to get tangled up.

Thank you very much. Honestly, I fluctuate between wanting to throw my computer away and getting a degree in computer science or something.
120 posted on 12/15/2004 1:26:26 PM PST by A knight without armor
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