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Hello group,
just wanted to alert you to a rogue piece of software:
in the past I used the Lavasoft Adaware succesfully. Now I had to use it
on my friend's computer. Since I didn't remember exact web site to get
it from, I just went to www.adaware.com. The address in the location bar
changed to www.ada-ware.com. Hm.. There was a program to download, which
I did, then I ran it. Now funny things started. It downloded another
program (SpywareNuker was it's name). That seemed funny to me but I
carried on, installed that one and started it. It looked differently
from the adaware I used in the past. okay, it ran reporting found
registry keys, cookies, files etc. Then I cleaned all this stuff from
that computer. It still works the same as it did, in particular it still
has all the popups popping up. Messenger service is stopped and zonelarm
is running.
On that www.ada-ware.com there is some stupid rant about ada
programming language("Ada is the language of the International Space
Station, Boeing jets, world-wide Air Traffic Control, and the French TGV
high-speed train"). The connection b/w Ada and AdAware program is unclear.
So my suspicion was that instead of cleaning her computer I stuffed
more spyware crap into it, and the "found" culprits were bogus.
So then I went ahead and got proper AdAware from lavasoft. It found 33
items, including this "spyware nuker".
So, there you are: somebody exploits the name Adaware to plant more
spies on your computer. Very nice...
Or may be I am just paranoid..
Btw, she uses IE5. I heard of various "popup stoppers", i.e. external
pieces of software which stop popups. Not as an advert, but just a
sidenote, Netscape 7.x has this capability built-in and I never had this
problem since I swithched it on. May be newer versions of IE have that too.
Yuri
just wanted to alert you to a rogue piece of software:
in the past I used the Lavasoft Adaware succesfully. Now I had to use it
on my friend's computer. Since I didn't remember exact web site to get
it from, I just went to www.adaware.com. The address in the location bar
changed to www.ada-ware.com. Hm.. There was a program to download, which
I did, then I ran it. Now funny things started. It downloded another
program (SpywareNuker was it's name). That seemed funny to me but I
carried on, installed that one and started it. It looked differently
from the adaware I used in the past. okay, it ran reporting found
registry keys, cookies, files etc. Then I cleaned all this stuff from
that computer. It still works the same as it did, in particular it still
has all the popups popping up. Messenger service is stopped and zonelarm
is running.
On that www.ada-ware.com there is some stupid rant about ada
programming language("Ada is the language of the International Space
Station, Boeing jets, world-wide Air Traffic Control, and the French TGV
high-speed train"). The connection b/w Ada and AdAware program is unclear.
So my suspicion was that instead of cleaning her computer I stuffed
more spyware crap into it, and the "found" culprits were bogus.
So then I went ahead and got proper AdAware from lavasoft. It found 33
items, including this "spyware nuker".
So, there you are: somebody exploits the name Adaware to plant more
spies on your computer. Very nice...
Or may be I am just paranoid..
Btw, she uses IE5. I heard of various "popup stoppers", i.e. external
pieces of software which stop popups. Not as an advert, but just a
sidenote, Netscape 7.x has this capability built-in and I never had this
problem since I swithched it on. May be newer versions of IE have that too.
Yuri