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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:48 pm 
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I have that #8 EZ Trust anti virus on my main player box. I don't like it much. AVG found 8 virus' on a system I fixed for someone today. It could only fix 7 of them. All it said about that last one was it could not heal it. Hmmm?

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:48 am 
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Hermskii wrote:
I have that #8 EZ Trust anti virus on my main player box. I don't like it much. AVG found 8 virus' on a system I fixed for someone today. It could only fix 7 of them. All it said about that last one was it could not heal it. Hmmm?


Yup its getting that way you need even more specialised software to remove viri (which it probably isnt it will be a trojan) if you need help removing it sign up to the website i posted the links to, goto the hijack forum follow the instructions in the first post and they will tell you what to do/use to fix the problem however as a friend on here now knows this could take a few days and a dozen steps to achieve.

Dark

P.S any help advice you may need if you do this give me a buzz and will help.

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Yes it can take many days and many steps to get rid of a nasty virus lol.I'm the friend lol.I went looking on a site for my neighbor and got nailed real hard with a virus.Thanks to Dark and that forum it is now gone and my pc is better.

Herm listen to dark on this one he knows what he is talking about.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:52 pm 
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That article in Consumer Reports Magazine that I was quoting mentioned that there are some big companies behind some of the latest Spyware being brought out these days:

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Much spyware operates under the cloak of legitimate business, complete with corporate headquarters, legal departments, publicists, Washington lobbyists, and millions in revenues to fund the assault on your computer. "Spyware is written by the very best teams of hackers and virus writers," says Rick Carlson, president of Aluria Software, which publishes Spyware Eliminator software.

Big name companies spend big money for space in those pop-up windows: Circuit City, Dell Computer, JPMorgan Chase, McAfee, and Vonage are a few of the many companies whose ads have popped up via adware this year. "Lots of big companies get involved in this mess." says Ben Edelman, a spyware researcher who has served as an expert witness in lawsuits against spyware companies.

More threats, such as those combining virus technology with spyware, are appearing. "About 18 months ago, you could keep a new PC online for 45-55 minutes before it was attacked by something." says Kraig Lane, group product manager at Symantec. "Now it takes just 4 to 5 minutes."


Perhaps we should boycott companies that support spyware manufacturers? :angry7:

I said in my previous post that Spyware Blaster only updates about once a month. Well I've had two updates so far this month, and it's only August 4th. Spybot Search and Destroy, which usually only updates about once a month, has had 3 updates in the last 2 weeks. Ad-aware has also been very busy updating.
It looks like we're under a heavy new onslaught. Check for updates every day, folks. :cussing: :brave:

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I had some serious problems until recently. Yahoo/SBC, my isp, includes Computer Asscoiates anti-virus. When I ran the first sweep of this program, it found and eliminated around 75 adware and malware problems. I was running spybot, adaware and some other program that kept missing all that garbage.
I't's nice not having all that crap coming up and slowing down this piece of junk machine.

JB

BTW, I agree with the previous posts about not supporting any of the companies that use this intrusive means to advertise.

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Fluffy the Bunny wrote:
I don't know if this still works or not, but you used to be able to go in your bio's and set the date ahead, lets say 5 years. Down load and install nortons 14 day free trial package. Go back into the bio's and reset to the correct year and have a full working trial package set to expire 5 years and 14 days later.

Heres some good "FREE" anti virus software:
Here is every piece of software you will ever need to protect your PC. Choose one firewall and one antivirus program and any amount of Privacy or Spyware software. Best of all, its all Free!

Free Antivirus-
AVG Free Edition http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
or
Avast Home Edition http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Free Firewall-
Sygate Personal Firewall http://soho.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
or
Kerio Personal Firewall http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
or
Zone Alarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?lid=zadb_zadown

Free Spyware Scanner-
Spybot- Search And Destroy http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html
and
Ad-aware http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

Free Spyware Prevention
Spyware Blaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
and
Spyware Guard http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
and
IE Spyad http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0%2Cfid%2C23332%2CRSS%2CRSS%2C00.asp

Free Privacy Protectors-
MRU Blaster http://www.mrublaster.com/mrublaster.html
and
Eraser http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
and
IE Privacy Keeper http://www.unhsolutions.com/IEPK/index.shtml


Trojan Prevention
a2 (Not brilliant, but improving) http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
and
Swat It (Very good reviews) http://www.swatit.org/


Experience the value of Webroot products for yourself with free trials that, for a limited time, offer all the benefits of the fully functioning software. Wonder if the bio's changing would work with these? Of course most can be picked up cracked at the p2p sites.
Window Washer V5.5 Size: 1.95 MB
Spy Sweeper V3.5 Size: 3.70 MB
Accelerate V4.0 Size: 1.03 MB
My Firewall Plus V5.0 Size: 5.86 MB
My Personal Favorites V4.0 Size: 1.02 MB
Pop Up Washer V2.4 Size: 1.96 MB
Spam Shredder V1.9 Size: 5.2 MB
MacWasher Classic V2.1.2 Size: 1.32 MB
MacWasher X V1.1 Size: 4.47 MB
http://www.webroot.com/

More tools :wink:
The CoolWebSearch Chronicles detail the variants of the browser hijacker known as CoolWebSearch (CWS). CoolWebSearch is known to be one of the most difficult spyware infections to detect and remove. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Popup-Ad-Spyware-Blockers/CWShredder.shtml

This place is great. Tools up the kazoo. Great for downloads and there is a huge list of "SCUMWARE" products pretending to be anti-trojan/virus/spyware but actually som of the nastiest. Check it before installing any non-mainstream protection programs.
http://barneysplace.isecurity.org.uk/index-2.html

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Perhaps that post could be moved to the downloads forum so that it will be easy for others to find.


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I remeber that post. I try out that my internet company has free.I thought it was McAffe but wasn't but NOT zonealarm. I see how it works.It listed as Cox High Speed Internet. My sister fanily got high speed internet :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: .No more ask them to sign on inter At christmas to check forum :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

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