Remove your Spyware and Adware NOW!!!

[KingFish]

While you guys are online searching for ######, or what else to satisfy your fantasies, you'd be surprised to know just how much of crap you have unknowingly downloaded onto your system.

Spyware ... adware ... applications / applets which invades your prvacy or worse, malicious software which can cause some REAL havoc.

Anyway, my last run of Ad-aware a month ago gave me shock. My latest run of Spybot gave me a rude shock. Just a month and I have twice as many alerts.

So do yourself a favour and get some spyware/adware detection software to clean your computer system.

For the more interested, there is SpyBlaster which can detect, clean and prevent spyware ActiveX controls.

[sinner]

bro thanks for the advise downloaded and trying now

[sinner]

cool~ it seems to have stop my pop ups for now at least

[xfusion]

[Golden Tooth]

[yus75]

got 5 dwld.... wich 1 u all dwlding??

[nicky30092002]

I uses comet for a long while liao ..

it evens stops PM popup ... of cos it is configurable .. find it not bad too ..

[Deep_Blue]

Down with the pop-ups!!!

[ah^siao]

anyone will do

[ah^siao]

adware not good meH?

[riot]

tsk tsk tsk I see rumour has been surfing objectionable sites...... them popups must be killer, eh

[hoppinghippos]

uum rumour.. why don't you share some uummm typical sites which has lots of this spyware and popups so we can... ummm see and learn how to protect ourselves....

[KingFish]

Its not really a matter of whether adware is good or not, its just personal preference. I don't really like the idea of files, or applets stored on my system without my permission.

My work requires me to visit some underground site, somehow I'll be redirected. There are popup killers which are useful, some of them can be blocked by editing your hosts file.

This break gave me some time to administrate the boxes at home, so thought you guys can do some housekeeping as well

hoppinghippos, I'm sure those kids with raging hormones have a better idea of which site to visit than us . The sites I gave should provide some links for useful information

[Achilles Tang]

My firewall blocks my PM box from popping up and even gifs from animating!

It does this when I activate the anti-pop up ads/ad blocking feature.

[weileong]

which firewall you using?

[KingFish]

Many people have the misconception that with a firewall, you're protected and safe.

That is WRONG.

The Firewall is only as strong as its weakest link.

So unless you know how to configure it properly, you will still be open to attacks.

[CKS]

Its not really a matter of whether adware is good or not, its just personal preference. I don't really like the idea of files, or applets stored on my system without my permission.

My work requires me to visit some underground site, somehow I'll be redirected. There are popup killers which are useful, some of them can be blocked by editing your hosts file.

This break gave me some time to administrate the boxes at home, so thought you guys can do some housekeeping as well

hoppinghippos, I'm sure those kids with raging hormones have a better idea of which site to visit than us . The sites I gave should provide some links for useful information

Cool

What do u do for living?

ive been in IT sec for quite sometime as well .. will probably continue with this line after i ORD.. plz check ur PM

[CKS]

Maybe AT is talking those all-in-one desktop PC security suite .. firewall + anti spyware + anti popup..etc

they're kindof common now a days

[KingFish]

Sure, I am aware that you were with TriSecurity and another security company one time.

I'm in the same line as you, but have moved from consulting to the user side now.

[CKS]

nope..i wasnt part of TriSecurity .. wasnt in any company coz i was still schooling ..

[KingFish]

... must have misread it somehow.

Cool, check your PM.

I don't trust any package these days. Even with BlackIce, a colleague sitting down the isle dialled out to an ISP, came in through our FW and changed the synchronisation shortcut of my shared drive to his local machine.

Contemplating running VMware now, wipe out everything and start from a fresh image everytime I bootup.

[CKS]

heh yea ..

firewall is just one of the basic security mechanism..

as long as we have something unpatched (internet server or internet application) running .. we'll be vulnerable..

[KingFish]

IIS for example?

Just as well, that way we can still earn a living...

[CKS]

or vulnerable version of IE (u can just get ur machine compromised by surfing..how fun)

that was how the source code of halflife got stolen i believe

yea.. even if ur firewall is set to disallow all outgoing connection ..but only allow incoming connection to vulnerable version of IIS ... it'll still be possible to allow complete control of the server (one way shellcode)

[KingFish]

hehe ... before we really go into technical bits, Tango_Liverock is here, he's in the secuity business as well, user environment I think.