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Posted By: Sam Freedom In Response To: Spyware threat!.... (Angela)
Tuesday, 8 November 2005, at 7:22 p.m.
> Visited a website from a google search today looking for
> free printable receipts. When prompted to 'allow script to run'.
> Recieved Instant notification 'in red' from adaware se personal
> that spyware was attempting to download. I clicked do not allow
> of course. Didn't work. Several things were downloaded including
> a trojan.
> Ran a scan, several, removed all detected, there were 5.
> Still getting bombarded with pop ups~ off to run another scan
> with different software. Just wanted to stop in and warn everyone
> about the site. Also, since they already 'got me' I can not
> go back to the site.
> site url
> What ever you do, don't go there!
Angela,
That was funny. Not that you got a trojan, but that in your
sincere wish to warn people not to visit 1 of the bazillion
sites with spyware - a site that most people here had like a
1 in bazillion chance of finding anyways, you inadvertently
advertised them and increased their pagerank. On behalf of
that trojan site, I thank you for the one-way backlink that
Google gives high value to. :-)
Ok, all kidding aside, I've used and tested many things,
including the ones you've mentioned. Ad-aware and Spybot
S&D are, while nice, and once very effective, a little
slow in catching up with the huge proliferation of spyware,
etc. The only thing I've found to outperform everything,
including my Norton is Panda Activscan.
You can go to google, type Panda and Activescan and you'll
get the proper page. From there, you must initiate an
online scan. Once something has breached your computer,
an online scan becomes a necessity because some of the little
nasties can alter your protection to make it appear as if it's
working just fine when it really isn't.
So go try that out and let me know how it works for you.
Regards,
Sam
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