KingFish Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member sinner Posted January 23, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 23, 2004 bro thanks for the advise downloaded and trying now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member sinner Posted January 23, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 23, 2004 cool~ it seems to have stop my pop ups for now at least Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member xfusion Posted January 23, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 23, 2004 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Golden Tooth Posted January 23, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 23, 2004 Quote Bevor Sie das Licht sehen, müssen Sie sterben! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member yus75 Posted January 23, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 23, 2004 got 5 dwld.... wich 1 u all dwlding?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member nicky30092002 Posted January 23, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 23, 2004 I uses comet for a long while liao .. it evens stops PM popup ... of cos it is configurable .. find it not bad too .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deep_Blue Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 Down with the pop-ups!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member ah^siao Posted January 23, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 23, 2004 anyone will do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member ah^siao Posted January 23, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 23, 2004 adware not good meH? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member riot Posted January 24, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 24, 2004 tsk tsk tsk I see rumour has been surfing objectionable sites...... them popups must be killer, eh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member hoppinghippos Posted January 24, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 24, 2004 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.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingFish Posted January 24, 2004 Author Share Posted January 24, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilles Tang Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weileong Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 which firewall you using? Quote Weileong's 4ft tank Part I Weileong's 4ft tank Part II Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingFish Posted January 24, 2004 Author Share Posted January 24, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member CKS Posted January 24, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 24, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member CKS Posted January 24, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 24, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingFish Posted January 24, 2004 Author Share Posted January 24, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member CKS Posted January 24, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 24, 2004 nope..i wasnt part of TriSecurity .. wasnt in any company coz i was still schooling .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingFish Posted January 24, 2004 Author Share Posted January 24, 2004 ... 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member CKS Posted January 24, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 24, 2004 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.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingFish Posted January 24, 2004 Author Share Posted January 24, 2004 IIS for example? Just as well, that way we can still earn a living... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member CKS Posted January 24, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 24, 2004 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingFish Posted January 24, 2004 Author Share Posted January 24, 2004 hehe ... before we really go into technical bits, Tango_Liverock is here, he's in the secuity business as well, user environment I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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