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4Sale Laptop! (A warning to DB members)
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Re: 4Sale Laptop!
BEWARE!!!!!!!!
Don't risk getting spyware imbedded into your PC!!!!!!
BEWARE!!!!!!!!
Don't risk getting spyware imbedded into your PC!!!!!!
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Re: 4Sale Laptop!
hey jim
we get these spammers from time to time... don't respond to any of these ads unless they are personally from divers selling dive related equipment.. as most of the time, these ads are just s1**
best,
Sara
hey jim
we get these spammers from time to time... don't respond to any of these ads unless they are personally from divers selling dive related equipment.. as most of the time, these ads are just s1**
best,
Sara
Re: 4Sale Laptop!
I thought it might be a good idea to leave this up for a while, I think it might be a good idea to illustrate the sort of thing that gets posted here at least 3 times a week usually in pairs offering free ipods or cheap holidays etc. The format of these posts is always identical with a link to somewhere nasty so if you're suspicious, don't click the link, just click the red triangle warning sign at the top of the post, this is the "Report a bad post" utility, but remember to fill in a reason otherwise it wont send; this will alert one of the Deeper Blue team to its presence and they will delete it straight away
Along the same lines, we run a program on our computers called "Adaware! by Lavasoft, its freeware and downloadable, it will search for and remove most spyware crap from your puter
I thought it might be a good idea to leave this up for a while, I think it might be a good idea to illustrate the sort of thing that gets posted here at least 3 times a week usually in pairs offering free ipods or cheap holidays etc. The format of these posts is always identical with a link to somewhere nasty
so if you're suspicious, don't click the link, just click the red triangle warning sign at the top of the post, this is the "Report a bad post" utility, but remember to fill in a reason otherwise it wont send; this will alert one of the Deeper Blue team to its presence and they will delete it straight away Along the same lines, we run a program on our computers called "Adaware! by Lavasoft, its freeware and downloadable, it will search for and remove most spyware crap from your puter
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A brief Essay On Spyware - from a network administrator's POV.
This stuff can cause your pc to grind to a halt - not to mention grabbing credit card numbers and all that. I , just for 'fun', have fixed two PCs that were completely inundated with spyware. I did it for an educational process - in both cases It took approximatley 4 days to clear them. They were INCREDIBLY slow and a process like opening windows explorer could take 3-5 hours. Once the machines were sort of cleaned up I plugged them into the internet - this activated another family of spyware and viruses and, once again, I had machines that took hours to complete processes that need seconds on the same machine sans spyware. I know of several people who, in ignorance, went out and purchased new computers!!
Normally I just reformat the drives on machines that are inundated with this stuff.
In house I use Mcafee managed virus defense - which now has an anti-spyware component rolled into it - and microsoft's free beta. Mcafee 8.0i also has AS functionality - but not as much as specialized anti-spyware packages. In my tests both the MS package and alluria beat spybot - which is nonetheless pretty good. Spywareblaster was another freebee which worked synergistically with spybot.
For free stuff right now I'd suggest the Microsoft one or a combination of several. They change all the time and the anti-spyware business is very competitive.
NEVER install anyting off a pop-up - even if it says it'll save your computer. Alot of the worst crap is spyware installed by anti-spyware ads. I haven't checked adaware in awhile, but when I did it installed a bunch of memory resident popups. Might be better now.
This stuff can cause your pc to grind to a halt - not to mention grabbing credit card numbers and all that. I , just for 'fun', have fixed two PCs that were completely inundated with spyware. I did it for an educational process - in both cases It took approximatley 4 days to clear them. They were INCREDIBLY slow and a process like opening windows explorer could take 3-5 hours. Once the machines were sort of cleaned up I plugged them into the internet - this activated another family of spyware and viruses and, once again, I had machines that took hours to complete processes that need seconds on the same machine sans spyware. I know of several people who, in ignorance, went out and purchased new computers!!
Normally I just reformat the drives on machines that are inundated with this stuff.
In house I use Mcafee managed virus defense - which now has an anti-spyware component rolled into it - and microsoft's free beta. Mcafee 8.0i also has AS functionality - but not as much as specialized anti-spyware packages. In my tests both the MS package and alluria beat spybot - which is nonetheless pretty good. Spywareblaster was another freebee which worked synergistically with spybot.
For free stuff right now I'd suggest the Microsoft one or a combination of several. They change all the time and the anti-spyware business is very competitive.
NEVER install anyting off a pop-up - even if it says it'll save your computer. Alot of the worst crap is spyware installed by anti-spyware ads. I haven't checked adaware in awhile, but when I did it installed a bunch of memory resident popups. Might be better now.