[Alert] I'm sticking with Adaware & Spybot

[Mike Dee]

According to the Register:

<Q>
The first piece of malware to attack Microsoft's new prototype
anti-spyware product has emerged. The BankAsh-A Trojan disables
Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta in an attempt to suppress any warning
messages the package might display. It also deletes files within the
program's folder. Unlike other items of malware, BankAsh-A makes no
attempt to turn off anti-virus apps.

The main function of BankAsh-A is to steal online banking
passwords...
</Q>

Rest of article:
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/09/banking_trojan/>

 

[ad]

According to the Register:

<Q>
The first piece of malware to attack Microsoft's new prototype
anti-spyware product has emerged. The BankAsh-A Trojan disables
Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta in an attempt to suppress any warning
messages the package might display. It also deletes files within the
program's folder. Unlike other items of malware, BankAsh-A makes no
attempt to turn off anti-virus apps.

The main function of BankAsh-A is to steal online banking
passwords...
</Q>

This do not surprise me, everytime I hear something like this and with
the load of updates just released, it makes me thik more of dumping the
P.C and getting an Apple Mac or going back to windows 98 at least now
most people are getting Xp, windows 98 is being left alone.

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 10 Feb 2005, ad wrote

This do not surprise me, everytime I hear something like this and
with the load of updates just released, it makes me thik more of
dumping the P.C and getting an Apple Mac or going back to windows
98 at least now most people are getting Xp, windows 98 is being
left alone.

Some of us have never changed from Win98, but when I'm finally forced
to, I'm expecting to grapple with Linux rather than XP or Longhorn.

Definitely not Apple for me, though. (Tie myself not only to one
corporation's OS, but also to the same company as my sole hardware
supplier? No thanks.)

 

[Aaron]

On 10 Feb 2005, ad wrote

Why such a big deal over a common piece of malware? It's not the first
time we had a virus/worm/trojan target popular antivirus and/or
Spybot+adaware.

Definitely not Apple for me, though. (Tie myself not only to one
corporation's OS, but also to the same company as my sole hardware
supplier? No thanks.)

Heh interesting rationale here.

 

[Chaos Master]

This is Harvey Van Sickle for forever:

Some of us have never changed from Win98, but when I'm finally forced
to, I'm expecting to grapple with Linux rather than XP or Longhorn.

Definitely not Apple for me, though. (Tie myself not only to one
corporation's OS, but also to the same company as my sole hardware
supplier? No thanks.)

You can run Linux (Linux/PowerPC or Linux/ppc for short) and NetBSD
(NetBSD/macppc) on Mac machines.

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