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Geek Culture / VX2 spyware must die...

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Van B
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2004 18:35
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Hi all,
Damn I've had a lot of hassle with my PC - due to the virus like behaviour of 1 bit of spyware. Every 30 seconds or so, a new popup would appear, this makes coding a nightmare, testing an app then it switches to some webpage selling smilies or something equally stupid.

Anyhoo, Adware Spy and No Adware and Spybot S&D all failed to get rid of it (they could detect it, they even appeared to remove it). In the end I had to reboot in safe mode, then go looking for the hidden .dll's. They show as 314k and will be in the windows system32 folder - they'll be hidden unless you select to show all the files (hidden and protected system). The filenames are sorta random, but look for things like *lui.dll.


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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2004 22:55 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2004 22:56
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Sounds like you dont have a real-time ad blocker - or you dont have XP SP2...

I would recommend Trend Internet Suite - got firewall, very good AV, and a URL filter...

And whats happened to your animated GIF?


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CattleRustler
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2004 22:58
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try using Hijack This.


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Benjamin
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2004 23:18
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Any firewall will stop those popups..

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Van B
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2004 23:26
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I'm using Win2k, and had'nt installed the firewall since I reinstalled a couple of months ago. I use Panda Antivirus/Firewall.

My router apparantly has a firewall too - but it can't be working that well.


Van-B


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Toby Quan
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2004 23:32
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I personally recommend Norton Internet Security. I would never go online without it again!

It stops intrusion attacks, spam, pop ups, and it even stips out ALL commercials from websites that you visit. A very good purchase!
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Ilya
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2004 23:43
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Is it very slow?

The default editor is fine.

Quote: "I've seen the word programming and I'm not sure what it means. Anybody please explain?"
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Neofish
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Posted: 23rd Oct 2004 00:06
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Norton Anti-Virus is

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Ilya
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Posted: 23rd Oct 2004 01:25 Edited at: 23rd Oct 2004 01:26
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Oh wait, I have Internet Security, I just don't use it(scince it doesn't do anything).

The default editor is fine.

Quote: "I've seen the word programming and I'm not sure what it means. Anybody please explain?"
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CattleRustler
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Posted: 23rd Oct 2004 02:10
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Van turn off the Messenger Service in windows services. Its a known exploit. And get behind I decent firewall like ZoneAlarm or BlackIce


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Chenak
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Posted: 23rd Oct 2004 21:26
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try this website

http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/

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Jess T
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Posted: 23rd Oct 2004 21:41
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Urg... Norton Internet Security is shocking.
Slows boot time, kills system resources ( this is an old PC too ), slows internet connection SEVERELY, stops me from connecting every 2/3 times, and worst of all, unless you PAY, they dont give you the damned definition updates! I mean, what use is it unless you have the latest protection? Peice of c... I'll show YOU! *shakes fist*...

Ok, I'm over it now.

I use ZoneAlarm - Works nicely, always picks up connections, doesn't slow anything down and has a nice locking system

Jess.


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Ilya
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Posted: 24th Oct 2004 00:33
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I use a hardware firewall.
Hardware > Software

The default editor is fine.

Quote: "I've seen the word programming and I'm not sure what it means. Anybody please explain?"
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indi
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Posted: 25th Oct 2004 17:35
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download the latest spybot search n destroy, dont rely on an older version to update itself. when u get the newer version u get the tea timer update which stops them before they even get a chance.
If u wanted to remove it easily as noted above get Hijackthis.
Alternatively ditch windows altogether for email and surfing
keep it for gaming etc.. but,
get a mac or use a linux box for the majority of web and email.
stop using IE, theres so many exploits now it aint funny.

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The Big Babou
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Posted: 26th Oct 2004 09:51
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Quote: "Get Firefox"


I personally use Zonealarm, AntiVir Personal Edition and AdAware and had no problems since...well very long ago. End best is: all this stuff is free .

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