Ad-aware is finding new spyware every 2 minutes

""Perverts or Policy?"" <Vivalafrance.RemoveThis@men.tos> wrote in message
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> For the past few weeks, my pc has been slow, locking up and something
> changed the color of my toolbar. These problems have been resolved by
> ad-aware (thank you Lavasoft) quarantining 237 items but subsequent scans
> minutes later find 2-5 new suspected items. I can purge my hard drive and
> start with a clean slate no problem because this computer is only for web
> surfing (i did do some shopping and my email privacy has probably been
> compromised.) Did ad aware not pick up all the suspects that first go or
am
> I being bombarded constantly when I web surf and I need to initiate scans
> constantly?

Download SpywareBlaster (freebie) from Javacool and see if that doesn't make
a difference.....it stops spyware from landing on your computer.

Then, if needed, run Hijack This or CWShredder.....but you may find that SWB
does the trick.

Just opened the new Spybot 1.3.....it found more than the previous one. You
can find that one at Major Geeks.....(probably the other ones as well).

Heather
>
>
>
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"Heather" <janesmith60 DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> ""Perverts or Policy?"" <Vivalafrance DeleteThis @men.tos> wrote in message
> news:nrOoc.111310$WA4.89139@twister.nyc.rr.com...
> > For the past few weeks, my pc has been slow, locking up and something
> > changed the color of my toolbar. These problems have been resolved by
> > ad-aware (thank you Lavasoft) quarantining 237 items but subsequent
scans
> > minutes later find 2-5 new suspected items. I can purge my hard drive
and
> > start with a clean slate no problem because this computer is only for
web
> > surfing (i did do some shopping and my email privacy has probably been
> > compromised.) Did ad aware not pick up all the suspects that first go
or
> am
> > I being bombarded constantly when I web surf and I need to initiate
scans
> > constantly?
>
> Download SpywareBlaster (freebie) from Javacool and see if that doesn't
make
> a difference.....it stops spyware from landing on your computer.
>
> Then, if needed, run Hijack This or CWShredder.....but you may find that
SWB
> does the trick.
>
> Just opened the new Spybot 1.3.....it found more than the previous one.
You
> can find that one at Major Geeks.....(probably the other ones as well).
>
> Heather
> >
> >
> >
>
>

cool, thank you both.
 >> Stay informed about: Ad-aware is finding new spyware every 2 minutes 

"Heather" <janesmith60.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2ghss4F38ildU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> ""Perverts or Policy?"" <Vivalafrance.RemoveThis@men.tos> wrote in message
> news:nrOoc.111310$WA4.89139@twister.nyc.rr.com...
> > For the past few weeks, my pc has been slow, locking up and something
> > changed the color of my toolbar. These problems have been resolved by
> > ad-aware (thank you Lavasoft) quarantining 237 items but subsequent
scans
> > minutes later find 2-5 new suspected items. I can purge my hard drive
and
> > start with a clean slate no problem because this computer is only for
web
> > surfing (i did do some shopping and my email privacy has probably been
> > compromised.) Did ad aware not pick up all the suspects that first go
or
> am
> > I being bombarded constantly when I web surf and I need to initiate
scans
> > constantly?
>
> Download SpywareBlaster (freebie) from Javacool and see if that doesn't
make
> a difference.....it stops spyware from landing on your computer.
>
> Then, if needed, run Hijack This or CWShredder.....but you may find that
SWB
> does the trick.
>
> Just opened the new Spybot 1.3.....it found more than the previous one.
You
> can find that one at Major Geeks.....(probably the other ones as well).
>
> Heather
> >
> >
> >
>
>

cool, thank you both.
 >> Stay informed about: Ad-aware is finding new spyware every 2 minutes 

On Thu, 13 May 2004 18:05:02 +0000, null wrote:

> On Thu, 13 May 2004 17:41:39 GMT, "\"Perverts or Policy?\""
>
> Use Mozilla for browsing.


I'll second that but hey, I run Linux anyway...
 >> Stay informed about: Ad-aware is finding new spyware every 2 minutes 

On Thu, 13 May 2004 18:05:02 +0000, null wrote:

> On Thu, 13 May 2004 17:41:39 GMT, "\"Perverts or Policy?\""
>
> Use Mozilla for browsing.


I'll second that but hey, I run Linux anyway...
 >> Stay informed about: Ad-aware is finding new spyware every 2 minutes 

""Perverts or Policy?"" <Vivalafrance RemoveThis @men.tos> wrote:

> For the past few weeks, my pc has been slow, locking up and something
> changed the color of my toolbar. These problems have been resolved by
> ad-aware (thank you Lavasoft) quarantining 237 items but subsequent scans
> minutes later find 2-5 new suspected items. I can purge my hard drive and
> start with a clean slate no problem because this computer is only for web
> surfing (i did do some shopping and my email privacy has probably been
> compromised.) Did ad aware not pick up all the suspects that first go or am
> I being bombarded constantly when I web surf and I need to initiate scans
> constantly?

Further to (or instead of) all the other advice...

Quite possibly you have some new scumware that Ad-aware is not detecting
yet that is re-introducing some components that it does.

Or you may just visit a bunch of dodgy sites and have had one or more of
the recent nasties that dumbs down your IE security zone settings. If
this is the case you should seriously consider using another browser
(actually, you should do that anyway _AND_ make sure that nothing else
you use is really just a few kilobytes of independently developed code
masquerading IE in front of you in different regalia...), but either way,
Disconnect your Internet connection, kill all IE instances, run Ad-aware
again and fix everything it knows about then run the Internet Options
control panel and reset each of the IE security zones to their defaults.
Now go back online, brose around a bit and re-check the IE security
settings -- if they've been altered from the defaults, the "Default
Level" button will not be greyed-out. If you have some kind of hi-jacker
resetting your IE security settings to a dumbed-down level it is very
dagerous to browse the net with IE _or_ to use any IE-based Email client
(Outlook, OE, etc) until you get the system properly fixed -- at this
point you need things like HijackThis and the "expert help" various
places offer to make sense of the HJT logs. This is described in many
other posts here so I'll skip the gory details...


--
Nick FitzGerald
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""Perverts or Policy?"" <Vivalafrance.RemoveThis@men.tos> wrote:

> For the past few weeks, my pc has been slow, locking up and something
> changed the color of my toolbar. These problems have been resolved by
> ad-aware (thank you Lavasoft) quarantining 237 items but subsequent scans
> minutes later find 2-5 new suspected items. I can purge my hard drive and
> start with a clean slate no problem because this computer is only for web
> surfing (i did do some shopping and my email privacy has probably been
> compromised.) Did ad aware not pick up all the suspects that first go or am
> I being bombarded constantly when I web surf and I need to initiate scans
> constantly?

Further to (or instead of) all the other advice...

Quite possibly you have some new scumware that Ad-aware is not detecting
yet that is re-introducing some components that it does.

Or you may just visit a bunch of dodgy sites and have had one or more of
the recent nasties that dumbs down your IE security zone settings. If
this is the case you should seriously consider using another browser
(actually, you should do that anyway _AND_ make sure that nothing else
you use is really just a few kilobytes of independently developed code
masquerading IE in front of you in different regalia...), but either way,
Disconnect your Internet connection, kill all IE instances, run Ad-aware
again and fix everything it knows about then run the Internet Options
control panel and reset each of the IE security zones to their defaults.
Now go back online, brose around a bit and re-check the IE security
settings -- if they've been altered from the defaults, the "Default
Level" button will not be greyed-out. If you have some kind of hi-jacker
resetting your IE security settings to a dumbed-down level it is very
dagerous to browse the net with IE _or_ to use any IE-based Email client
(Outlook, OE, etc) until you get the system properly fixed -- at this
point you need things like HijackThis and the "expert help" various
places offer to make sense of the HJT logs. This is described in many
other posts here so I'll skip the gory details...


--
Nick FitzGerald
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