WinAntiSpyware2007

[LurkingBettor]

Got another one of those malwares trying to sell me their crap. Got rid of a bunch of the files via AdAware, Spy-Bot, and deleted a few by hand.

Must still have a couple of bad files floating around because I keep getting an ad from Outerinfo and Windows Installer keeps trying to load FrontPage (it's already installed).

Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Thx.

LB

[Tom]

Click on Let's Dance and follow ALL the intructions, in order.
It is important how you run the progams as much as it what programs you run.

http://securitytango.com/

[headhawg]

Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Thx.
For everyone:

1) Stay away from sites that might lead to these kind of popups: "You have 6,782 porn references on your computer. Click here to remove them."

2) DON"T CLICK ON ANY POPUP ADS!!! (Except to close them, of course. If you don't see a close button try pressing Alt-F4 on your keyboard.)


This has been a public service message.

[Tom]

I remeber a funny one a while ago - it was a pop up that said:
"Click Here For FREE Spyware"

Duh? Wonder how many suckers did that?

BTW, the old "closing your Pay Pal account" one is still floating around - got one yesterday.

[njcurveball]

I went to Cnet and downloaded Win Patrol recently. It found lots of stuff that was missed by Windows Defender and even go through Ad aware. :ThmbUp:

[andicap]

I've used Spyware Blaster as a pre-emptive strike (it prevents spyware from being downloaded instead of detecting it afterwards) along with Spybot and have been clean, clean, clean forever.
I also have Zone Alarm -- free version -- as a firewall and free AVG as anti-virus, but I disable the email scanners because my ISP already does a good job in doing this and AVG email scanner was interfering with my Internet setup. You only need one email scanner for anti-virus and your ISP is probably doing it.

No virus, spyware, malware, rootkits, etc. for a long while. (knock on wood)

[LurkingBettor]

superantispyware.com got rid of this p.o.s.

Highly recommend:ThmbUp: