about 10 new bits of Spyware on my PC that it didn't find yesterday
New stuff is much sneakier :P
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:34:13 -0500, Marlon Moyer wrote:
>
> I happened to use IE for about 10 minutes yesterday from inside my
> company network behind their firewall, behind my personal firewall and
> somehow got some spyware installed (Twaintech, aBetterInternet, etc). I
> noticed that a couple of programs asked for internet access from my
> personal firewall. Luckily I denied them and then ran spybot-S&D with
> the most current updates. It found only a couple of cookies. No big
> deal. Today I noticed an odd process called alchem.exe in my registry
> startup section. After googling around, I figured out that it is a
> trogan. People recommended a program called "Scan Spyware". Supposedly
> this works because the new spyware trogans use hidden attributes that
> Adaware and Spybot don't see.
>
> Did I mention that I hate IE.
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