Summary: By Jim Lynch Extreme Tech Intuit is following in the footsteps of giants. Wrongheaded, mistrustful, overcontrolling giants. When Microsoft released Of...
Summary: "How did this junk get on my computer?" We see that all the time in this forum. Okay, here's one example, and a product to stay away from: Quoted from...
Summary: It's the only virus that I know of that went from Mild to Medium on the risk factor in a 24hr. period. If anyone has not read about it you owe it to y...
Summary: In a recent cnet.com article named: "Spyware cures may cause more harm than good" one reads about certain spyware removal tools themselves installing ...
Summary: http://security-protocols.com/article.php?sid=1370 The Complete Windows Trojans Paper Posted on Wednesday, October 23 @ 22:40:12 EDT by badpack3t T...
Summary: HAVE A READ :) Home Page Hijacking - "Has your Browser Been Hijacked?" You have been surfing all over the web for hours and hours, you close your brow...
Summary: I had read about that in the free news letter I receive from Fred Langa in my email. But, I swear that I seen Ad-Aware have an update with this, WhenU...
Summary: Hi everybody! Thanks for all the ideas and comments posted about my problem with ABOUT:BLANK hijacking my home page. All replies are read and digeste...
Summary: tomo If you have trouble getting to a site that is in restricted zone...I wouldn't put it in trusted...just leave it once removed from restricted..it ...
Summary: I agree with capt above. Spybot Search & Destroy targets some things that Ad-Aware does not. You can read about it and download it directly from th...
Summary: Hi, so many people seem to use the googlebar, so I'm thinking of giving it a shot, even though ie with sp2 has a built in popup blocker. Do any of you...
Summary: hi ilt;3lofi, all spyware is badware! i don't think you understand. if tom 41 says you can exclude it in spybot, then do it. you know it has spyware, ...
Summary: I read about few similar problems but this seems to be the latest one. The spyware puts a red tray on my desktop indicating: Your computer is infected...
Summary: Zonealarm reports Windows Explorer wants to access the Internet. This happens every time I start up the PC. I have Win ME, IE 5.5 SP 2. I tried severa...
Summary: AdAware removes spyware that's already in your computer but SpywareBlaster prevents most spyware from ever getting in your computer in the first place...
Summary: S.T.A.R. Good to hear from you again. I didn't really understand the resolutions in your first post, the relationships between ActiveX and Download.T...
Summary: Hi, so I read about the huge security breach Microsoft had and decided to download their security patch yesterday... big mistake. I don't know what h...
Summary: efabes: It was a forlorn statement which needed no question mark. 8-) I agree with you about the operating system. The more I've read about digital ri...
Summary: Thanks Capt, I will do what you said about turning on XP Firewall and uninstalling ZoneAlarm. I am little slow today and this is the first chance I ha...
Summary: Hi guys, I remember reading about the MS anti-spyware utility before its release but I wasn't convinced I needed it. I still haven't installed it...I ...
Summary: I have a few problems with adware and spyware on my computer... 1) First of all in IE on almost all web pages I visit some of the words are underlin...
Summary: Ok, you guys are making me paranoid! I have Norton's Internet Security, however, maybe I need to check in to a spyware program as well. Which one do y...
Summary: Hello, Many things has been said about "Alexa", lots of programers, as for exemple the ones from AdAware think that all protocole trying to connect to...
Summary: You might want to read this thread about it at spywareinfo.com http://www.spywareinfo.com/yabbse/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=2474 If t...
Summary: I know I'm gonna get a lot of flack from some regular posters here. Each has his own preferences for AV software, but here goes anyways. This initiall...
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