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AVG Free anti-virus software also has a built-in spyware removal tool. I also use the ones George captioned below - and even I get bit every once in a while by some new bug. It's amazing that so many people have the time on their hands to be able to propagate all this crap... Mark - N9WYS --- On Wed, 8/11/10, George Henry wrote: Nonsense! Spybot Search Destroy, Ad-Aware, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and SuperAntiSpyware are all EXCELLENT free anti-spyware programs. I routinely use all 4 of them to clean up infections for people. No spyware in ANY of them and, between the four programs, I have yet to run into something I couldn't clean. George, KA3HSW / WQGJ413 - Original Message - From: Tim Sawyer Was your machine on while you were away? If so you may have gotten a virus or spyware. Sounds like your wife got it too. Spamers like to infect machines just to get control of them for sending spam. The really bad news is that most free spyware removal software is spyware itself. A really good PC guy might be able to remove it. Good luck man! -- Tim
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I use a simple bootable usb stick with win7 and avira and a couple of other tools on other peoples machines I mine a drop the vitrual machine and it's clean To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com From: n9...@ameritech.net Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:51:33 -0700 Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Sorry everyone AVG Free anti-virus software also has a built-in spyware removal tool. I also use the ones George captioned below - and even I get bit every once in a while by some new bug. It's amazing that so many people have the time on their hands to be able to propagate all this crap... Mark - N9WYS --- On Wed, 8/11/10, George Henry wrote: Nonsense! Spybot Search Destroy, Ad-Aware, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and SuperAntiSpyware are all EXCELLENT free anti-spyware programs. I routinely use all 4 of them to clean up infections for people. No spyware in ANY of them and, between the four programs, I have yet to run into something I couldn't clean. George, KA3HSW / WQGJ413 - Original Message - From: Tim Sawyer Was your machine on while you were away? If so you may have gotten a virus or spyware. Sounds like your wife got it too. Spamers like to infect machines just to get control of them for sending spam. The really bad news is that most free spyware removal software is spyware itself. A really good PC guy might be able to remove it. Good luck man! -- Tim
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Sorry, not trying to propagate crap. I was just trying to be helpful and didn't want him to make maters worse. Thanks for your recommendations. -- Tim :wq On Aug 12, 2010, at 6:51 AM, Mark Tomany wrote: It's amazing that so many people have the time on their hands to be able to propagate all this crap...
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George uses the same gear I swear by. Spybot SD is my top pick - along with MalWareBytes. Good suggestions all around. Good luck Dave! John Hymes La Rue Communications 10 S. Aurora Street Stockton, CA 95202 http://tinyurl.com/2dtngmn - Original Message - From: Tim Sawyer To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 8:49 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Sorry everyone Sorry, not trying to propagate crap. I was just trying to be helpful and didn't want him to make maters worse. Thanks for your recommendations. -- Tim :wq On Aug 12, 2010, at 6:51 AM, Mark Tomany wrote: It's amazing that so many people have the time on their hands to be able to propagate all this crap...
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At 09:20 PM 08/11/10, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Tim Sawyer tisaw...@gmail.com To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:29 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Sorry everyone Was your machine on while you were away? If so you may have gotten a virus or spyware. Sounds like your wife got it too. Spamers like to infect machines just to get control of them for sending spam. The really bad news is that most free spyware removal software is spyware itself. A really good PC guy might be able to remove it. Good luck man! -- Tim :wq Nonsense! Spybot Search Destroy, Ad-Aware, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and SuperAntiSpyware are all EXCELLENT free anti-spyware programs. I routinely use all 4 of them to clean up infections for people. No spyware in ANY of them and, between the four programs, I have yet to run into something I couldn't clean. George, KA3HSW / WQGJ413 Add Hijack This! to your toolkit. Excellent for clearing crud out of hijacked browsers. I keep a copy in my virus removal toolkit - and the copy is named iexplore.exe so that the malware that does filename checks lets it run (like some blackmail-ware). Add Mike Lin's Startup Control (the single file exe version, not the installed version) as it helps resolve issues with programs that start when the system starts up. I have all my antivirus tools on a SD card that is in a USB flash drive reader. Why an SD card? Because the card has a write protect switch. Load the card, flip the switch, and it can't be written to like a regular flash drive can. Other than write protection I treat it just like any other flash drive. See http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/SDR-1/SD-CARD-READER/WRITER-USB-2.0/1.html The reader costs $4. A 4gb card is under $20. Naturally larger cards are more expensive. The SD card and matching reader is cheap protection for the antivirus / malware remover part your computer toolkit. The only complaint I have is that the All Electronics reader is a bit fat and blocks the adjacent USB jack on some systems. A 3 inch USB extension cord fixes that. Lastly - never use a flash drive / thumb drive / pen drive as your permanent storage - only as a secondary or transit storage device. I've seen too many die with no notice, and be irrecoverable. One client's daughter lost a three week vacation / honeymoon worth of photos. Another lost several hundred photos of a Grand Canyon raft trip. Both my 16bg regular toolkit and my 4gb antivirus toolkit have a backup copy as a folder on a raid-protected server and as a folder on my laptop. If the flash drive dies (and it has twice in three years) I just buy a new one, load it up and use it. Mike WA6ILQ
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Mike - Fantastic suggestions! I, myself use Hijack This! and keep it in my arsenal as well. You are very right about the drives failing with no warning, and I have lost a few back in the day. Have not lost any flash drives over 4 Gig yet, but my very first one 512 MB (Bought about 7 years ago) went, about 2 months ago. Fortunately I always back up every 6 months or so. (For more important documents and files, even more often). One of my mottos is BACK UP! BACK UP! BACK UP! For RSS software, I've heard of people who backup to DVD and CD. Make a master copy and stick it in the safe. ANything happens to the subsequent copies, they have an instant master to copy from. Flash drives work just as well, as this group can attest to. Cheers! John Hymes La Rue Communications 10 S. Aurora Street Stockton, CA 95202 http://tinyurl.com/2dtngmn - Original Message - From: Mike Morris To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Sorry everyone At 09:20 PM 08/11/10, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Tim Sawyer tisaw...@gmail.com To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:29 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Sorry everyone Was your machine on while you were away? If so you may have gotten a virus or spyware. Sounds like your wife got it too. Spamers like to infect machines just to get control of them for sending spam. The really bad news is that most free spyware removal software is spyware itself. A really good PC guy might be able to remove it. Good luck man! -- Tim :wq Nonsense! Spybot Search Destroy, Ad-Aware, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and SuperAntiSpyware are all EXCELLENT free anti-spyware programs. I routinely use all 4 of them to clean up infections for people. No spyware in ANY of them and, between the four programs, I have yet to run into something I couldn't clean. George, KA3HSW / WQGJ413 Add Hijack This! to your toolkit. Excellent for clearing crud out of hijacked browsers. I keep a copy in my virus removal toolkit - and the copy is named iexplore.exe so that the malware that does filename checks lets it run (like some blackmail-ware). Add Mike Lin's Startup Control (the single file exe version, not the installed version) as it helps resolve issues with programs that start when the system starts up. I have all my antivirus tools on a SD card that is in a USB flash drive reader. Why an SD card? Because the card has a write protect switch. Load the card, flip the switch, and it can't be written to like a regular flash drive can. Other than write protection I treat it just like any other flash drive. See http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/SDR-1/SD-CARD-READER/WRITER-USB-2.0/1.html The reader costs $4. A 4gb card is under $20. Naturally larger cards are more expensive. The SD card and matching reader is cheap protection for the antivirus / malware remover part your computer toolkit. The only complaint I have is that the All Electronics reader is a bit fat and blocks the adjacent USB jack on some systems. A 3 inch USB extension cord fixes that. Lastly - never use a flash drive / thumb drive / pen drive as your permanent storage - only as a secondary or transit storage device. I've seen too many die with no notice, and be irrecoverable. One client's daughter lost a three week vacation / honeymoon worth of photos. Another lost several hundred photos of a Grand Canyon raft trip. Both my 16bg regular toolkit and my 4gb antivirus toolkit have a backup copy as a folder on a raid-protected server and as a folder on my laptop. If the flash drive dies (and it has twice in three years) I just buy a new one, load it up and use it. Mike WA6ILQ
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I also use Hijack This! and Startup Control Panel... both excellent tools, but many less-experienced computer users won't know what to do with the scan info from HjT, nor which startup entries can safely be turned off. I therefore only recommend them to those who know what they are doing under the hood. George, KA3HSW - Original Message - From: Mike Morris wa6...@gmail.com To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Sorry everyone [snip] Add Hijack This! to your toolkit. Excellent for clearing crud out of hijacked browsers. I keep a copy in my virus removal toolkit - and the copy is named iexplore.exe so that the malware that does filename checks lets it run (like some blackmail-ware). Add Mike Lin's Startup Control (the single file exe version, not the installed version) as it helps resolve issues with programs that start when the system starts up. I have all my antivirus tools on a SD card that is in a USB flash drive reader. Why an SD card? Because the card has a write protect switch. Load the card, flip the switch, and it can't be written to like a regular flash drive can. Other than write protection I treat it just like any other flash drive. See http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/SDR-1/SD-CARD-READER/WRITER-USB-2.0/1.html The reader costs $4. A 4gb card is under $20. Naturally larger cards are more expensive. The SD card and matching reader is cheap protection for the antivirus / malware remover part your computer toolkit. The only complaint I have is that the All Electronics reader is a bit fat and blocks the adjacent USB jack on some systems. A 3 inch USB extension cord fixes that. Lastly - never use a flash drive / thumb drive / pen drive as your permanent storage - only as a secondary or transit storage device. I've seen too many die with no notice, and be irrecoverable. One client's daughter lost a three week vacation / honeymoon worth of photos. Another lost several hundred photos of a Grand Canyon raft trip. Both my 16bg regular toolkit and my 4gb antivirus toolkit have a backup copy as a folder on a raid-protected server and as a folder on my laptop. If the flash drive dies (and it has twice in three years) I just buy a new one, load it up and use it. Mike WA6ILQ
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i would like to thank all of you for understanding. right after i sent out my original appology i figured out which computer might be sending the cause of this. not long ago i got mom a new HP laptop. She wanted a computer just so she could play a few games. well mom is what i call a techno-tard (didnt even know how to turn it on). Before i knew it, her friend got her on facebook playing farmville and who knows what. Its the WHO KNOWS WHAT that i am worried about. not long ago the YL was over there on the computer, checking her email. next day i discovered her account sent out a similar email to what mine sent. i used it the day before yesterday and BAM, i discover the same email sent out. There is no evidence of a message being sent in my sent box here on Yahoo BUT i got 2 replys saying they couldnt be delivered. I was going to fix the issue yesterday but i got busy. AVG and Spybot SD will be installed a little later on today. You know, its funny... i spend 8 to 12 hours a day, 6 to 7 days a week, dealing with this issue and others like that. For 16 years i have never had an account of mine hit till now. i am supprised it didnt hit sooner. Thanks again everyone for understanding... 73's Dave Stephens Sr KF6WJA Grants Pass Or --- On Thu, 8/12/10, Mark Tomany n9...@ameritech.net wrote: From: Mark Tomany n9...@ameritech.net Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Sorry everyone To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 6:51 AM AVG Free anti-virus software also has a built-in spyware removal tool. I also use the ones George captioned below - and even I get bit every once in a while by some new bug. It's amazing that so many people have the time on their hands to be able to propagate all this crap... Mark - N9WYS --- On Wed, 8/11/10, George Henry wrote: Nonsense! Spybot Search Destroy, Ad-Aware, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and SuperAntiSpyware are all EXCELLENT free anti-spyware programs. I routinely use all 4 of them to clean up infections for people. No spyware in ANY of them and, between the four programs, I have yet to run into something I couldn't clean. George, KA3HSW / WQGJ413 - Original Message - From: Tim Sawyer Was your machine on while you were away? If so you may have gotten a virus or spyware. Sounds like your wife got it too. Spamers like to infect machines just to get control of them for sending spam. The really bad news is that most free spyware removal software is spyware itself. A really good PC guy might be able to remove it. Good luck man! -- Tim
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so i got on here this morning and found out that I had sent out a mass email to everyone in my address book with a link to some website. Funny thing is that when this email was sent, I was butt deep in the Applegate River with my family (a location that doesn't even get cell coverage). this same thing happened to Liz (my better half) just a couple days ago and now that it has happened to me, i have figures out where my account info leaked from. I am very sorry to all of you. Dave Stephens
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Was your machine on while you were away? If so you may have gotten a virus or spyware. Sounds like your wife got it too. Spamers like to infect machines just to get control of them for sending spam. The really bad news is that most free spyware removal software is spyware itself. A really good PC guy might be able to remove it. Good luck man! -- Tim :wq On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:18 AM, Dave E Stephens Sr wrote: so i got on here this morning and found out that I had sent out a mass email to everyone in my address book with a link to some website. Funny thing is that when this email was sent, I was butt deep in the Applegate River with my family (a location that doesn't even get cell coverage). this same thing happened to Liz (my better half) just a couple days ago and now that it has happened to me, i have figures out where my account info leaked from. I am very sorry to all of you. Dave Stephens
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Sorry to hear of that. I hope you can get your computers cleaned once and for all. Richard, N7TGB www.n7tgb.net The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money --Margaret Thatcher _ From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave E Stephens Sr Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 6:19 AM To: kf6...@yahoo.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Sorry everyone so i got on here this morning and found out that I had sent out a mass email to everyone in my address book with a link to some website. Funny thing is that when this email was sent, I was butt deep in the Applegate River with my family (a location that doesn't even get cell coverage). this same thing happened to Liz (my better half) just a couple days ago and now that it has happened to me, i have figures out where my account info leaked from. I am very sorry to all of you. Dave Stephens
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Dave , Make sure You are Not using and leaving on a Non Secure Wireless Network , I have heard of some strange things going on with the Hackers , I had a Ham Friend who was coming to visit so I watched for Him He was in my driveway and I thought he was having a qso on His radio , He came in about 5 Min later and I ask Who was He talking to He stated No one , He was surfing the internet using My Unsecure Wireless Network , He then Set it to be secure with a password , I had No idea but have read that 99 Percent of the people just Plug in play with the defaults . Hope You had a Great Vacation Don KA9QJG From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave E Stephens Sr Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 8:19 AM To: kf6...@yahoo.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Sorry everyone so i got on here this morning and found out that I had sent out a mass email to everyone in my address book with a link to some website. Funny thing is that when this email was sent, I was butt deep in the Applegate River with my family (a location that doesn't even get cell coverage). this same thing happened to Liz (my better half) just a couple days ago and now that it has happened to me, i have figures out where my account info leaked from. I am very sorry to all of you. Dave Stephens
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- Original Message - From: Tim Sawyer tisaw...@gmail.com To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:29 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Sorry everyone Was your machine on while you were away? If so you may have gotten a virus or spyware. Sounds like your wife got it too. Spamers like to infect machines just to get control of them for sending spam. The really bad news is that most free spyware removal software is spyware itself. A really good PC guy might be able to remove it. Good luck man! -- Tim :wq Nonsense! Spybot Search Destroy, Ad-Aware, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and SuperAntiSpyware are all EXCELLENT free anti-spyware programs. I routinely use all 4 of them to clean up infections for people. No spyware in ANY of them and, between the four programs, I have yet to run into something I couldn't clean. George, KA3HSW / WQGJ413 Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: repeater-builder-dig...@yahoogroups.com repeater-builder-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: repeater-builder-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
