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Top 10 "Most Unwanted" Spyware Named
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| 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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Mike Lin Country: US
Additional information and support for Mike Lin's products is available from: http://www.mlin.net/
Other products by Mike Lin that are listed at SnapFiles:
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Startup Control Panel Startup Control Panel is a nifty control panel applet that allows you to easily configure which programs run when your computer starts. It s simple to use , very small and won t burden your system. A License: Freeware Click here for details...
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PathCopyEx A very simple shell extension that copies the text path of any file/folder in Explorer to the clipboard. Saves a bit of time on all those annoying Browse for Folder windows. License: Freeware Click here for details...
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RdocEx You probably know that you can quickly access recently used documents from the Start/Documents menu. However, this only works with Documents like TXT, DOC etc. RdocEx is a nifty shell add-on that als License: Freeware Click here for details...
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StartupMonitor StartupMonitor is a small utility that runs transparently in the background and notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup. You are then given the option to allow it, or License: Freeware Click here for details...
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Clipomatic Clipomatic is a clipboard cache program - it remembers what was copied to the clipboard even after new data is copied, and allows you to retrieve the old data. While there are many programs that do t License: Freeware Click here for details...
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I have heard good things about his stuff, but actually have not used any of it- yet!
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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...)
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.
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posted on
12/15/2004 7:34:14 AM PST
by
sam_paine
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To: sam_paine
So you are wired into Lotus Notes pretty tightly?
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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.)
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!
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posted on
12/15/2004 9:39:30 AM PST
by
sam_paine
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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?
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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...)
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.
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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.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
PROFS, IIRC, is a mainframe e-mail package.
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posted on
12/15/2004 10:19:12 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
Yes, I know, I had installed it at several customer sites, I understand initially Lotus involved a mainframe as well.
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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.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Correction.
I thought lotus Notes involved a server computer of some size.
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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.)
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.
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!
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posted on
12/15/2004 12:11:19 PM PST
by
sam_paine
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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.
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posted on
12/15/2004 12:16:41 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
To: sam_paine
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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.)
To: COBOL2Java
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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.)
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.
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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.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
And they are, because we keep all our program discs and back up religiously.
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posted on
12/15/2004 12:31:24 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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.
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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.)
To: R. Scott
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posted on
12/15/2004 12:49:54 PM PST
by
-YYZ-
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.
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