Re: anti-malware progs ineffective
From: john jardine (john_at_jjdesigns.fsnet.co.uk)
Date: 01/30/05
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:19:13 -0000
"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:32:43 -0000, "john jardine"
> <john@jjdesigns.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> ><Rubicon> wrote in message news:41fdb5a4.2546132@news.netaccess.co.nz...
> >>
> >> John,
> >>
> >> I've only just gotten rid of it myself.
> >>
> >> Spybot was useless but didn't crash on my machine. Ad-Aware SE
> >> Personal combined with the trial version of Spy Sweeper along with the
> >> new AVG Free and all with the latest definitions finally managed to do
> >> it.
> >>
> >> The Spyware/Adware/Malware/Spam E-Mail just seems to be getting worse.
> >> I'm becomming more and more reluctant to go online because of the
> >> immense frustration at trying to get rid of them afterwards.
> >>
> >> Good luck.
> >>
> >> Andrew.
> >>
> >
> >Pleased to know it's actually possible to get rid of the f***ing thing.
> >I've just downloaded those 3 software items and will give 'em a try. What
> >I'm ill at ease with, is paying for anti-virus software. The cynical part
of
> >me is suspecting I'd then be actively propping up the whole nightmare.
> >
> >Past day or so I've been using Firefox as the browser which has been no
> >problem. But the major scumware component is still present somewhere in
> >windows and I'm seeing the Internet-Explorer browser opening up over the
top
> >of Firefox (or this outlook express) every 6 minutes or so and
advertising
> >crap. Even has the cheek to rattle my a: floppy disc drive and then put
up
> >an antivrus advert.
> >
> >Even have my own f***ing bank advertising with coolWWW, so am having to
> >pursue with vigour and extreme predjudice, the bank's marketing people.
Each
> >hour megabytes of scumware programmes are self installing all over the
hard
> >disc, along with scum porn and ringtone icons littered everywhere.
They'll
> >continously alter the 'host.TXT' file, the start up prog list, the active
> >running progs,the home page, the IE addons and numerous registry entries.
> >In addition to this, the scumware also enjoys auto-altering certain
> >"permissions" on IE (an oxymoron if ever I saw one) so I can't close it
down
> >or get at the 'options tab etc. Have now to run another prog called
> >'permissions' to reset a number of IE check boxes before I can even start
> >removing the rubbish that's come in.
> >Even tried to remove IE itself http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html
but
> >this prog is worthless.
> >I tried reinstalling windows, but no joy as it assumes existing files are
> >OK. There's only a couple of self supporting virus/trojan files at work
but
> >windows is littered across 1000's of files so manually finding 'em is
damned
> >near impossible. Can't even just delete all the windows files as any
normal
> >software install will bung masses of unknown .exes, .dlls, junk, etc, in
> >among the windows stuff. Jesus H Christ, windows is a f***ing mess.
> >'Spybot', 'miniremoval', 'CWshredder', 'Hijackthis', 'Win patrolExplorer'
> >(and about 4 others!), have proved useless and I just hope that your
> >suggestions will work for me.
> >If not, then I'm looking to manually dismantle as much of Internet
Explorer
> >as I can without unduly crippling windows (or Firefox).
> >
> >10/10 for whoever wrote this POS. I just wish the major software
companies
> >would make their products as reliable.
> >
> >regards
> >john
> >
>
> Knocking on wood... I'm very impressed with Mozilla Firefox. NO
> adware since I switched from IE. And I don't need StopZilla or Cookie
> Pal anymore.
>
> ...Jim Thompson
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> I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Same here Jim. I'm very pleased.
Although I emptied the IE cache store every week, there were usually about
50-100 'tracking cookies' to be found in it.
Also, looks like 'Ad-Aware SE Personal' has managed to kill 'CoolWWW' !!!.
It wasn't just-a-couple of files like I thought, but 39 separate CoolWWW
*.DLLs files, 58 registry changes, plus 44 other *.exe and *.DLL scumwares
belonging to 5 other sales outfits. Big problem was a counterfeit MStask.exe
running as if normal. It took 3 locks ups and 2 crashes before Ad-Aware
winkled them all out. All this grief is the result of my visiting a porn
site two weeks ago. Let one in and they hold the door open for the rest.
I'll give it a couple of days and hope I can thank Andrew for the recommend.
regards
john
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