You might have a spyware problem if...
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You might have a spyware problem if...
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ColonelPanic
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Re: You might have a spyware problem if... (binary)
Oh, that's great! I'm stuck between wondering if that's just someone who didn't know what they were doing and ended up with all that crap on their, or.... Someone like me who would love to see a Windows box get brought to its knees by deliberately letting spyware app after spyware app install... Very funny stuff!
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Re: You might have a spyware problem if... (ColonelPanic)
Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic »I'm stuck between wondering if that's just someone who didn't know what they were doing and ended up with all that crap on their, or.... Someone like me who would love to see a Windows box get brought to its knees by deliberately letting spyware app after spyware app install... I would lean toward the deliberate side. That icon on the right-hand side of the system tray (by the clock) is Deep Freeze. Simply reboot the PC and *Poof* it's as if nothing ever happened. Simple way to have fun and clean up when you're done.
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ColonelPanic
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Re: You might have a spyware problem if... (millster)
Deep Freeze eh? I'll have to check that out sometime... *evil laugh!*
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Re: You might have a spyware problem if... (ColonelPanic)
http://www.faronics.com/html/deepfreeze.aspIt's really nice when dealing with labs in schools. Almost can't live without it.
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ColonelPanic
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Re: You might have a spyware problem if... (millster)
Wow, where the heck was that when I was doing desktop support? I can't count the number of times I had to skip lunch and work over after my shift to clean up spyware garbage on windows boxes!That junk really costs corporations some big bucks!
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At our school, we use deepfreeze on our laptops that we rent out to students, for this exact reason! but then leave a small partition for then to save stuff to that is deleted like once a month incase they need to save something and need it later and forget to save it. awesome program.about the pic? cough reason for a mac....cough.
Re: You might have a spyware problem if... (binary)
Funny...to a point. I have a H.D. in my computer that got so raped by spyware viruses, it became virtually useless. Has given me more headeaches to remove than any virus I've ever had. I wound up getting all my digital pics off the H.D. that I want and will re-format soon. Running a new H.D. and install of xp now. I believe I received it from my e-mail account at email.com, but not positive. I have the name of the spyware that "slipped by my goalie" written down somewhere here. I'll have to find it, look up the address of this "marketing company", and go kick some (removed).
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at work/school we did a study of good anti spyware apps for windows, here is the listspyware doctorMS anti-spyware betaad awarespybotspyware guardspyware blasterccleanerA squared freesome good antivirus apps areEscan symantec corp antivirusAVG freemcaffee sucks, and dont have more than 1 anti virus app on the pc at once it will freak windows out and screw it up. all those anti spyware apps are FREE! 
Re: (binary)
Quote, originally posted by binary »Our company has standardized on MS's Anti-Spyware beta... so far it's really done a great job keeping the sale's reps laptops clean... those goofs will click on anything.yup my CLA laptops and faculty computer for CLA all have MS antispyware beta per. their IT guy, its a good app to have installed. We did extensive tests and found spyware doctor to do the best job. finding more than 2/3 than any other app. (ms beta found 1500 and spyware doctor found 3500) but you should use more than one program to be more secure.
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Mr. Poopypants
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Re: You might have a spyware problem if... (binary)
That is funny, I have seen 4 searchbars before but that is classic.
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Re: You might have a spyware problem if... (ColonelPanic)
Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic »Someone like me who would love to see a Windows box get brought to its knees by deliberately letting spyware app after spyware app install... Did it on my old system when the motherboard was dying. No firewall, no virus protection, and lots of surfing. Unfortunately most spyware and junk comes from adult sites so since it was for science, I unwillingly obliged. I only managed 4 toolbars in a day of goofing around. I got 3 viruses, but thats because I saved all those emails on my server and opened them on purpose. No where close to that picture though. I think it may just be photoshopped
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silver_vibe
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Re: (binary)
Quote, originally posted by binary »Our company has standardized on MS's Anti-Spyware beta...I have found that MS Antispyware gives false positives. About a month ago, it detected the ATI Catalyst driver as a false positive and just last night it detected the Quicktime uninstaller as a false positive ...and those are just the two that affected me.Plus, MS is trying to buy Claria (the maker of one of the most widespread spywares - Gator) and then changed their AntiSpyware to now recommend that users "ignore" Claria.I've started removing MS Antispyware from my machines - I like Spybot Search & Destroy.