pest elimination

[RB]

Woof! Went to a Yahoo web site the other day and came out covered with
fleas. It put some kind of pop up monster into my hard drive and I've had a
cascade of trashy pop ups.

I run Adaware and Spybot, and get rid of a bunch of pests. Then, next time
I open IE, I get more popups. I've gone through 5 iterations of this, and
think I've finally gotten rid of most of the pests. I can now run Adaware
and Spybot without finding any pests.

There seems to be one Microsoft labelled pest still lurking, however, that
only pops up occasionally now.

How can I find and get rid of it? It isn't in the "add/remove" stuff, so
may be in registry. Question is how do I know what to look for, where to
look, and then how to eliminate? Good questions.

Help appreciated.

 

[null]

Woof! Went to a Yahoo web site the other day and came out covered with
fleas. It put some kind of pop up monster into my hard drive and I've had a
cascade of trashy pop ups.

I run Adaware and Spybot, and get rid of a bunch of pests. Then, next time
I open IE, I get more popups. I've gone through 5 iterations of this, and
think I've finally gotten rid of most of the pests. I can now run Adaware
and Spybot without finding any pests.

There seems to be one Microsoft labelled pest still lurking, however, that
only pops up occasionally now.

How can I find and get rid of it? It isn't in the "add/remove" stuff, so
may be in registry. Question is how do I know what to look for, where to
look, and then how to eliminate? Good questions.

http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/

There's a Help forum link there as well.

Why is it that you get hit with this sort of crap? Have you asked
yourself that? Seems to me that's the question you should be asking.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[Petr Koval]

http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/

There's a Help forum link there as well.

Why is it that you get hit with this sort of crap? Have you asked
yourself that? Seems to me that's the question you should be asking.

Or Google Toolbar, very effective with Internet Explorer 6
www.google.com -> Google Toolbar

It eliminates realyall Popup Windows on my PC

Petr

 

[optikl]

Woof! Went to a Yahoo web site the other day and came out covered with
fleas. It put some kind of pop up monster into my hard drive and I've had a
cascade of trashy pop ups.

I run Adaware and Spybot, and get rid of a bunch of pests. Then, next time
I open IE, I get more popups. I've gone through 5 iterations of this, and
think I've finally gotten rid of most of the pests. I can now run Adaware
and Spybot without finding any pests.

There seems to be one Microsoft labelled pest still lurking, however, that
only pops up occasionally now.

How can I find and get rid of it? It isn't in the "add/remove" stuff, so
may be in registry. Question is how do I know what to look for, where to
look, and then how to eliminate? Good questions.

Help appreciated.

A few things:
1) You need to be more discriminating as to the sites you surf in or
2) You need to install protection if you're going to be using IE as a
browser and you need to restrict Active X and Java Script to *trusted sites
only*.
a) Get IE SpyAD and install it. It sets up restricted sites in IE:
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/main-nf.htm
b) Use the SpyBot Inoculation Module to protect yourself when it detects
IE trying to download spyware
c) Get a hold of Spyware Blaster:
www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html
3) Stop using IE if you can't be bothered with 1 & 2 and get yourself a
Mozilla based browser. Set it
4) This is most important, read this: http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html

 

[optikl]

There's a Help forum link there as well.

Why is it that you get hit with this sort of crap? Have you asked
yourself that? Seems to me that's the question you should be asking.

Amen.

 

[optikl]

Or Google Toolbar, very effective with Internet Explorer 6
www.google.com -> Google Toolbar

It eliminates realyall Popup Windows on my PC

Petr

Sure it's no longer spyware?

 

[Petr Koval]

Sure it's no longer spyware?

this is not so much importand if you are not directly connected to
internet amd browsing only thanks of any proxy server

google toolbar is than for prohibiting of web browser popup windows
and proxy for prohibiting that your pc is transefing any data into the
internet

Petr

 

[null]

3) Stop using IE if you can't be bothered with 1 & 2 and get yourself a
Mozilla based browser. Set it
4) This is most important, read this: http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html

Looks like M$ agrees with our recommendation to use alternate browser,
email and newsgroup apps since they now link to our Safe Hex page

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/community/related/default.mspx

Now if they would only allow downloading of critical security patches
using browsers other than IE ....


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[optikl]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:19:22 GMT, "optikl"
Looks like M$ agrees with our recommendation to use alternate browser,
email and newsgroup apps since they now link to our Safe Hex page

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/community/related/default.mspx

Now if they would only allow downloading of critical security patches
using browsers other than IE ....

That's gotta be a hold over from the "Browser Wars". You know, when
Microsoft believed that Netscape was actually a threat to its strategy to
dominate net commerce.

 

[RB]

Thanks for the info and ideas:

}}} Why is it that you get hit with this sort of crap? Have you asked
yourself that? Seems to me that's the question you should be asking. {{{

Sure have. Here I am behind two firewalls, and running a good a/v program,
and I still catch flu.

}}}You need to be more discriminating as to the sites you surf in {{{

I got the infection through going to a web site that was one of many during
a Google search. I systematically go to each that shows any sign of promise
for what I'm searching for (you can't search without going to web sites,
especially if you're price shopping for computer or optical stuff).

On a practical basis, how can you know which web sites not to go to until
you've been there and had a bad experience? Again, I do a lot of price
shopping online, so go to a number of web sites. The good news is that I
rarely trip across something like this.

}}} Get IE SpyAD {{{

OK.

}}} Use the SpyBot Inoculation Module to protect yourself when it detects
IE trying to download spyware {{{

Good idea.

}}} Get a hold of Spyware Blaster: {{{

Also good idea.