Are you reading this page?
in the early morning on Saturday, the 3rd of July 2004 by Chad
If you are reading this page, then you have a web browser. If you’re on Linux or Mac, skip to the next post.
If you are running Windows, then you are 99% likely to be running Internet Explorer.
If you are running Internet Exploder Explorer, then you are probably either already infected or are going to be infected with spyware, popups, dialers, etc.
Go to this website and download Spyware Blaster. It will help protect you from all the little nasties out there. Make sure to get the $9.99 auto-update service and don’t worry about ‘em at all.
I saw a very horribly infected system yesterday at work. There were about 20 open IE windows at all times, all the favorites links were filled with porn sites, the box was completely unusable. It had taken me 6 hours to disinfect the box completely a few months ago, and it wasn’t nearly this bad. This time we just reimaged the system. It took 15 minutes. Thus comes the second rule of spyware. The first being writing or distributing it is a drawing and quartering offence. The second is if you get infected, back up your data and reinstall your system. It will take much less time because you’ll probably never get it all off any other way.
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July 4th, 2004 at 9:50 pm
You know it is so sad. I , too, had my home PC get one specific malware program on it. I had to tear the system apart, after the second hour I strongly considered re-imaging from my handy ghost back-up, however curosity pulled me into a 8 hour ordeal. I ended up re-imaging the PC anyway as I was never really too sure if there was a password stealing trojan or something left behind, I had to marvel at its tenacity and ultimately superrior ability to constantly re-create new files and swap. I could not get rid of it using a combination af the top 3 spyware utilities. It took a combination of several sysinternal utilities including Autoruns, File Monitor, and TCP/IP Monitoring utilies and creating custom permissions to disallow access to some registry hives…..sheeze.
All I can see is, bye bye MSIE. I have never been a fan of any other browser, and have been using MSIE loyally for years…. until now. I am fully and happily using FireFox. What a great browser and it does everything that MSIE doesn’t.