Posted on 11/25/2004 10:32:44 AM PST by FrankRepublican
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I don't have any problems with Drudge Reports either.
Muleteam1
You were pretty clear. Maybe I wasn't.
Following your instructions will take some carefulness on my part. I've had a terminal or computer in my home since 1976. But sometimes the kind of task you outline takes some careful thoughtfulness and so forth.
Your first step seems to be to
Click on the file C:\Program Files\Ezula\UnWise.exe
Given my past experience trying to find such files, I was and am not yet confident I can find it to click on it without some considerable and possibly futile effort. Will go try now. Was going to wait until after Turkey. But I'll bravely go try now! LOL. Thanks for your hand-holding encouragement. That's what it seems to take with me on these sorts of things.
GREATLY APPRECIATED.
These kids (and teachers) seem to manage to get everything under the sun on the PC's - viruses, spyware, malware, etc.
I have yet to not be able to clean off a PC using these tools, and they have had some pretty insidious stuff:
CWShredder - removes several well known spyware programs. Run first.
I've never seen it happen, but if CWShredder starts and closes immediately, you have SmartKiller spyware installed. Download and run this first.
HijackThis - download HijackThis and run it and see if it finds/removes anything.
LSPFix - download LSPFix and run it. LSP stands for Layered Service Provider. As data goes in and out of your computer through the Internet (TCP/IP), it passes through different layers of "providers" (pieces of software). Some spyware installs itself as a LSP, which allows it to intercept network traffic and act on it. LSP's are hard to remove because they are loaded in memory by the operating system - Adaware usually detects that there is a problem, but has to reboot to fix it, if it can even do that (usually not). LSPFix will usually clean things up - but it is a rather technical program. It has saved me a few times from having to re-install Windows.
There are some other downloads HERE that fix minor specific things and provide information that you may or may not understand. Specifically, one program is StartupList which will show you a list of everything that runs when your computer starts up. But it doesn't help if you don't know what you are looking at.
After doing the above things, I run Adaware SE (not 6.0 - Adaware SE is the latest version and it detects many more things than the older 6.0 version).
Usually at this point, things are pretty clean, but I will usually run Spybot Search & Destroy just to be sure. But the new Adaware is much better than previous versions and usually catches everything.
Another tip if your computer seems to be prone to getting spyware (I'll blame the computer - but it's not the computer's fault - it is usually the user clicking Yes to everything, downloading non-trusted "freeware", or visiting non-trustworthy web sites - not always, but usually).
Download all of the above programs (and unzip the ones that are zipped) and burn them to a CD and keep it handy. I've helped a few people who got themselves infected with spyware and their web connection got trashed and it was too late to download these things to try to fix it. Having them on a CD helps because you don't have to rely on having to download them, which may not be possible right when you need them.
THANKS TONS.
WILL TRY IT.
HMMMMM. SOUNDS GOOD. WILL SEARCH IT OUT AND GIVE A TRY.
MUCH APPRECIATED.
WELLLLLLL, Couldn't find the files.
Will give Norton a scan instruction when I start Turkey and maybe a couple hours or so later I'll find out if Norton still finds them.
But usually, no matter if Norton finds them or not, I can't any way or any where I look.
Haa, haa. Since I do this stuff in my sleep, I keep forgetting that the apparently simple instructions might be complicated for mere mortals (Tongue Firmly Planted In Cheek).
and for everyone, after you get rid of the spyware/viruses, defragment your hard drive to speed things up.
Start, programs, accessories, system tools, defragmenter.
Go download the trial version of Trojan Horse and you will see what all you are missing.
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I had issues with Norton 2003, however my system has been performing fabulously with NIS 2005 and concerns with ad ware ect, now are rapidly resolved!
I am very pleased with their system and would highly recommend it to the concerned!
I had a problem with a loaner I had to use for a few months. Spybot, Norton and Adaware did the job – after I used them to clean things up. Run all three while in safe mode. If you have an “administrator” setting make sure you use it while in that mode.
Throw away version 1.2 - the newest version of Spybot (1.3) is a big step up.
"firefox is far from bug-free or complete security. don't buy the hype, there's plenty of probs with firefox and they'll be more as more people use it and spyware makers hone in on it. the 'freesource myth' is one big crock of crap built up by script kiddies and 1337 puter nerds. plus the fact it doesn't read half the pages on the net correctly and many common features dont work because of its quirky code rendering (which they falsely claim is 'standards compliant')
firefox blows chunks"
I now have Spy Sweeper and McAfee and they do a nice job.
Also, I have this pop-up killer called POW! that works pretty well (when I remember to activate it).
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