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Post #113,982
by Another Scott
8/16/03 8:53:47 AM
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New Get SpyBot Search and Destroy. Get Mozilla Firebird.
It sounds like you've got a "spy bot" of some sort when you got the viruses. Download [link|http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download|Spybot Search and Destroy] and run it on your system.

If you find Mozilla to be too slow, you might try [link|http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/releases/0.6.1/MozillaFirebird-0.6.1-win32.zip|Mozilla Firebird (direct download link)]. It's a lot less piggy than Mozilla and works well in my limited testing.

HTH. Good luck!

Cheers,
Scott.
Post #113,995
by a6l6e6x
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8/16/03 4:16:18 PM
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New Or, AdAware from LavaSoft or both.
Alex
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." -- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
Post #114,012
by Andrew Grygus
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8/16/03 7:42:56 PM
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New I'm seeing a lot of damage from scumware.
Not only does it slow the machines down, if often causes a lot of instability. I use Adaware (which has been greatly improved lately) to remove it.

Some infections, when removed, destroy your tcp/ip, so you have no network or Internet access. Just reinstalling Windows over the current install doesn't fix it. You have to go through the whole process of uninstalling tcp/ip, removing all it's files, and then reinstall Windows over the current install.

Attaching Windows to the Internet just gets more and more expensive by the month.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
Post #114,037
by SpiceWare
8/16/03 11:20:03 PM
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New seeing that a lot myself
most recently was over at a friend's and his roommate asked for help with his computer. [link|http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/|Ad-aware] found and removed over 400 things and cleared up the problem.
Darrell Spice, Jr.                      [link|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
     ME laptop CPU/mem oddity - (tablizer) - (34) - Aug. 16, 2003, 02:52:08 AM EDT
         Re: ME laptop CPU/mem oddity - (deSitter) - (26) - Aug. 16, 2003, 03:25:05 AM EDT
             Choices? - (tablizer) - (25) - Aug. 16, 2003, 06:11:43 PM EDT
                 RAM is cheap - (hnick) - (6) - Aug. 16, 2003, 06:25:46 PM EDT
                     Doesn't more RAM eat up laptop batteries? - (tablizer) - (4) - Aug. 16, 2003, 06:43:34 PM EDT
                         I do tend to think more in terms of desktop machines - (hnick) - (3) - Aug. 17, 2003, 09:53:36 AM EDT
                             Re: I do tend to think more in terms of desktop machines - (deSitter) - (2) - Aug. 17, 2003, 11:45:10 AM EDT
                                 Varying mileage :) - (hnick) - (1) - Aug. 17, 2003, 01:14:22 PM EDT
                                     Re: Varying mileage :) - (deSitter) - Aug. 17, 2003, 03:51:28 PM EDT
                     Re: RAM is cheap - (deSitter) - Aug. 16, 2003, 07:16:32 PM EDT
                 Re: Choices? - (deSitter) - (17) - Aug. 16, 2003, 07:14:30 PM EDT
                     Sheesh. - (Another Scott) - Aug. 16, 2003, 07:35:06 PM EDT
                     If it came pre-installed, it's fine. - (static) - (15) - Aug. 17, 2003, 01:02:28 AM EDT
                         No. - (pwhysall) - (14) - Aug. 17, 2003, 04:10:19 AM EDT
                             and why? - (deSitter) - Aug. 17, 2003, 06:40:55 AM EDT
                             So sure are you... - (static) - (12) - Aug. 19, 2003, 06:59:16 AM EDT
                                 Re: So sure are you... - (deSitter) - Aug. 19, 2003, 10:23:54 AM EDT
                                 ME was pretty universally despised inside Microsoft. - (inthane-chan) - (9) - Aug. 19, 2003, 11:09:54 AM EDT
                                     The first thing you do with Me . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (8) - Aug. 19, 2003, 02:38:19 PM EDT
                                         Au contraire... - (admin) - (7) - Aug. 19, 2003, 02:40:34 PM EDT
                                             Yeah, but the clients get annoyed . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2003, 03:39:06 PM EDT
                                                 Yep. - (admin) - Aug. 19, 2003, 03:51:08 PM EDT
                                             *snort* - (deSitter) - (4) - Aug. 19, 2003, 05:55:09 PM EDT
                                                 ICLRPD (new thread) - (inthane-chan) - Aug. 19, 2003, 06:06:26 PM EDT
                                                 Dunno what color it was. - (admin) - (2) - Aug. 19, 2003, 06:40:30 PM EDT
                                                     Refund? - (kmself) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2003, 08:31:35 PM EDT
                                                         Many thanks!! Karsten - (Ashton) - Aug. 24, 2003, 08:31:55 PM EDT
                                 Windows ME and stability - (orion) - Aug. 19, 2003, 01:58:37 PM EDT
         Haha - (pwhysall) - Aug. 16, 2003, 05:47:46 AM EDT
         Get SpyBot Search and Destroy. Get Mozilla Firebird. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Aug. 16, 2003, 08:53:47 AM EDT
             Or, AdAware from LavaSoft or both. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 16, 2003, 04:16:18 PM EDT
             I'm seeing a lot of damage from scumware. - (Andrew Grygus) - Aug. 16, 2003, 07:42:56 PM EDT
             seeing that a lot myself - (SpiceWare) - Aug. 16, 2003, 11:20:03 PM EDT
         current state of things - (tablizer) - (1) - Aug. 19, 2003, 11:23:10 PM EDT
             Licensing agreements. - (inthane-chan) - Aug. 20, 2003, 12:15:09 AM EDT

I think coming back from the summit was the rather more important achievement.
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