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Posted by Neredbojias on 07/12/07 08:12
Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:30:16
GMT Adrienne Boswell scribed:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Neredbojias
> <neredbojias@gmail.com> writing in
> news:Xns996ADB0D2AAD7nanopandaneredbojias@198.186.190.165:
>
>> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Wed, 11 Jul 2007
>> 20:11:27 GMT Adrienne Boswell scribed:
>>
>>> I have a good friend who asked me to come out and take a look at her
>>> daughter's computer because it was really slow. Spybot Search and
>>> Destroy came up with 1,401 malware programs and/or tracking cookies.
>>> The anti- virus came up with 89 viruses and trojans. I got
>>> everything cleaned up, installed a Hosts manager, Firefox and Opera
>>> (default). Then I told them that IE was off limits.
>>>
>>> Three days to fix this. Scarey.
>>
>> I have good and current anti-virus software, but what are these 1401
>> malware programs you're talking about? Will using something like
>> Ad-Aware regularly prevent such things? Firefox is my favorite
>> browser, but at times I have to use ie (6) for various reasons.
>>
>
> I use AVG Free from Grisoft - been using it for years, IIRC, I heard
> about it here in alt.html many, many moons ago. It runs a complete
> check every night.
>
> As far as malware, I use Spybot Search and Destroy. It seems to do
> better than Lavasoft. It runs a bot/ware check every Saturday night.
>
> Here are some of the preventative measures I use:
> 1. Hosts file with DNS Client disabled - there's no place like
> 127.0.0.1. I don't get to see a lot of adverts, I miss a lot of third
> party cookies, and I don't get to go to a lot of sites (gambling,
> porn, etc.) that I don't care about anyway. Of course, I could edit
> the hosts file, or disable it if I _want_ to go somewhere strange. I
> just got Hosts Manager from <http://www.abelhadigital.com/> . Very
> nice program. 2. I use Spyware Blaster
> <http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html>, and I keep it
> up to date.
> 3. I use Sunbelt Personal firewall (used to be Kerio). I like it much
> more than others because it's not memory hungry, and it also alerts me
> if one program is trying to start another.
> 4. StartUp Monitor and StartUp Control Panel from Mike Lin
> <http://www.mlin.net/>. Startup Monitor sits nicely waiting to stop
> anything the wants to change the startup options (Adobe, Quicktime,
> etc all try to have themselves loaded at startup). Startup Control
> Panel is great for managing what happens on startup.
Well, I _thought_ I was familiar with the host file, but what do you mean
by DNS client disabled? -Putting 127.0.0.1 after (mis)appropriate links?
> All of the programs I use have little footprints. I don't usually
> like using suites, and I stear very clear from Norton - it's a PITA to
> try to remove and uses waaaaayyyy too much memory.
Yep. A month after I got my new 'puter, I took it off both I own and
used Kasperskys to replace it. Kas seems quite good.
> Well, those are my recommendations. I've been doing things like this
> for a long time, and I've never had a virus or malware problem. I
> hope my list will help someone else.
I've never had a problem (of that nature) either, but I like to keep
aware of all the possibilities.
Thanks for the list/recommendations. I've captured and saved it and will
investigate as time permits.
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Neredbojias
A self-made man who worships his creator
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