On 6/12/04, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed:
>the genuine Mac stuff will be unbearably winsome and cute, and will
>test your gag reflex.
LOL. Oh yeah - and reliable ;-)
Cheers,
Cotty
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Hi,
> Thanks Dave -did that - but how can I tell what is Mac stuff and what is
> foreign infestation?? It all looks fine to me but is there anything I
> should be suspicious about?
the genuine Mac stuff will be unbearably winsome and cute, and will
test your gag reflex.
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Cheers,
Bob
On 6/12/04, David Mann, discombobulated, unleashed:
>In the Applications folder under Utilities is a program called Activity
>Monitor. Like the Windows task manager, it is quite cryptic to those
>who haven't seen it before. If you filter the process list with "My
>Processes" in the drop-down
On Dec 6, 2004, at 4:12 PM, Peter J. Alling wrote:
Adware usually runs as a service, if it's written properly it won't
show up in the Dock.
In the Applications folder under Utilities is a program called Activity
Monitor. Like the Windows task manager, it is quite cryptic to those
who haven't se
On 5/12/04, Peter J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed:
>Adware usually runs as a service, if it's written properly it won't show
>up in the Dock.
Where do I look for it running? Ah - System Profiler. I wonder if there
are any adware/spyware checking apps for the Mac, I'll go look on
versiontra
Adware usually runs as a service, if it's written properly it won't show
up in the Dock.
Cotty wrote:
On 5/12/04, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
In Windows, all the process that are currently running can be brought
up in the task manager. I don't know if you Mac boys have a similar
On 5/12/04, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
>In Windows, all the process that are currently running can be brought
>up in the task manager. I don't know if you Mac boys have a similar
>way of monitoring what running or not.
>Once you know what should be running, anything that shouldn't
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From: "Cotty"
Subject: Re: Really OT: More on spy/adware problems
On 5/12/04, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
Cotty, I know virus' aren't much of an issue for Mac users, but are
the spyware/adware programs an issue?
Bill I wouldn&#
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Sorry for the repeat OT.Looking for a little more guidance here.
So i downloaded Ad Aware and it found a bunch of stuff which i quarintined. I then
downloaded
Spybot,it found a bunch more but quits 1/2 way through the removal part.
Friday my shortcut to my
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Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/12/04, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
Cotty, I know virus' aren't much of an issue for Mac users, but are
the spy
Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 5/12/04, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
>
>>Cotty, I know virus' aren't much of an issue for Mac users, but are
>>the spyware/adware programs an issue?
>
>Bill I wouldn't know where to start looking? How does one know if there
>is spyware/adware inf
On 5/12/04, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
>Cotty, I know virus' aren't much of an issue for Mac users, but are
>the spyware/adware programs an issue?
Bill I wouldn't know where to start looking? How does one know if there
is spyware/adware infesting the system?
Cheers,
Cotty
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Really OT: More on spy/adware problems
I'm going through the same thing with my daughter's IBM clone. It's
bloody
frustrating. The only answer I know is to get a Mac. I don't think
you have
anywher
I'm going through the same thing with my daughter's IBM clone. It's bloody
frustrating. The only answer I know is to get a Mac. I don't think you have
anywhere near the problems with a Mac. I know that I have no problems with my
Mac.
But my daughter says she has so much on her computer that she
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From: "Cotty"
Subject: Re: Really OT: More on spy/adware problems
On 4/12/04, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
Get a router.
I bought one even before the broadband was installed here. Links up
to a
wireless Airport Base Station and we jes cr
On 4/12/04, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
>Get a router.
I bought one even before the broadband was installed here. Links up to a
wireless Airport Base Station and we jes cruuisin.
Cheers,
Cotty
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Hi!
Dave, my standard outfit is:
Kerio Personal Firewall (2.1 - free version)
Mozilla Firefox browser (1.0 - also free)
Privoxy - internet proxy that blocks pop ups and does other cool stuff
(also free)
And from time to time (once every two weeks or so) I run Spybot Search
and Destroy. However I
Get a router.
William Robb
Hello Bob,
I've run into a few that are worse than that. They actually load two
copies as services. If you terminate one, the other immediately loads
it again. So you can't clear them from memory. On top of that,
during shutdown, they write out to the registry a new entry with a
random file na
Shel Belinkoff mused:
>
> Good advice, and good pointers.
>
> It might be a good time to mention that some adware and spy programs come
> attached to useful programs that one may DL from the net, and that removing
> the adware or spyware may cause the main program to stop running.
>
> Shel
Run
Best way to deal with these viruses is to blast them into kingdom-come.
(I just watched 'I, Robot' on DVD.)
Cheers,
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Good advice. I just put a tilde (~) in front of the name, and that seems
to do the trick.
And let's not forget that one can run msconfig and see exactly what's being
loaded on startup, both services and programs, and you can check/uncheck
boxes and see how the changes effect the system. For exam
Hi,
Saturday, December 4, 2004, 10:54:20 PM, Shel wrote:
> Good advice, and good pointers.
> It might be a good time to mention that some adware and spy programs come
> attached to useful programs that one may DL from the net, and that removing
> the adware or spyware may cause the main program
Good advice, and good pointers.
It might be a good time to mention that some adware and spy programs come
attached to useful programs that one may DL from the net, and that removing
the adware or spyware may cause the main program to stop running.
Shel
> [Original Message]
> From: Bob W <[EMAI
Hi,
> [...] and when i brought up my IE 6 i had lost all my history and popups
> came in faster
> than i could close them. Its a nightmare i have never had to go through
> before on this
> computer.
> I checked and my conection is armed for MS firewall,but still getting through.
Make sure you h
This":
http://www.download.com/3000-8022-10227353.html
Don
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 7:48 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Really OT: More on spy/adware problems
>
>
>
Dave,
Did you look at what Spybot found?
It sometimes peels away too much, so it's a good idea to NOT run it on
autopilot.
Jostein
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 2:47 PM
Subject: Really OT: M
While on the topic of malware, I should mention a file that caused me a lots
of aggravation and wasted time: something called noupdate.exe. It
prevented Norton and Windows from doing any updates, and would stop Norton
scans as soon as they started. I'm really glad I was able to get rid of it.
Dave, you're lucky you have XP. I run XP, Norton Antivirus, and I'm
connected to the Net through a DSL router. Even so, my computer was
attacked in July. 58 files came through in 2 minutes, many of them multiple
copies of viruses and worms. My address book was blank, IE Favorites nearly
all
Hi Dave,
Sometimes doing a system restore helps, but since this has been going on a
while you may need go back a ways in your restore settings. How far back
do they go? Do you have XP SP1?
Another thing to try is to manually clean up your machine. Get rid of all
temp files, cookies that are sc
Using Firefox with Adblock extension gives me a lot less sh** than
before and is safer (but no totaly safe of course) and you can block
annoying popups and ads :)
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Thibouille
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Sorry for the repeat OT.Looking for a little more guidance here
You might want to look at AdsGone http://www.adsgone.com
Blocks lots of stuff for me. It occasionally lets something through but their is
a way to make it know to block that next time. I also use the two programs you
mentioned to clean up the stuff it misses by running them about once a month.
g
Sorry for the repeat OT.Looking for a little more guidance here.
So i downloaded Ad Aware and it found a bunch of stuff which i quarintined. I
then
downloaded
Spybot,it found a bunch more but quits 1/2 way through the removal part.
Friday my shortcut to my internet connection wo
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