Weird ... and SPYWARE ><

Comment #5

LANTERN — Sun, 18 Jul 2004 02:09:25 GMT

Very good yes and don't forget the free firewall like Sygate personal firewall and free AVG antivirus software and others like them.

Comment #4

Mana — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 23:02:33 GMT

golotto, that's what i have to do with a couple computers I was fixing... there's a particular piece of adware/virus/trojan horse known as CoolWebSearch. Certain versions are so bad.. that it's too time consuming to remove its traces and you must start over ;.;....

Comment #3

jim695 — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 16:21:59 GMT

SpyBot S&D is an excellent program for removing spyware and adware from your computer, and it's free (they do request a donation, which I was happy to pay). It's the only one I've found that will effectively deal with the new "Comet" string; even Ad-Aware can't remove that one. If you also have Ad-Aware, it might see some Spybot files as adware or spyware, and the program (Ad-Aware) will squawk about them. If you have Spyware Nuker, lose it; it's just a pirated version of SpyBot, and SpyBot is a better, more thorough program, anyway.... [ More ]

Comment #2

golotto — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 15:54:16 GMT

i have gotten spyware a couple of times and it takes control of my homepage and changes it. i've found that by using the recovery disc that came with my computer and erasing and reprogramming everything, i remove the spyware and my computer is just like new. ...of course using the disc means that i have to re-download everything else like messenger since the recovery process erases everything that was there ...including the spyware :))

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Mana — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 04:00:41 GMT

(arg no edit field) -- And just to make sure, this is because I'm quite frustrated as you can see from this sorta stuff. -.-

Original Blog Entry: Weird ... and SPYWARE ><

Mana — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 03:59:07 GMT