I had a house guest during the NZ Junior champs. We left him homo alono with the computer one night. I'm not sure what motivated him (likely the stacks of animal porn he'd been ogling), but he ended up trying to download some program that would clean out all the historys. The result was he gifted me with something called smit.fraud.c or such like. And I'm still having trouble getting rid of it, which has seen me exiled to this here laptop (which you can't see I'm using; try to visualise).
If you ever want to remove evidence of where you've been or what you've been looking at, be it file or website, be it any application you've run, etc, then I've found "cleanup" to be quite useful. It's a free download from somewhere. "Cleanup" probably. I'm sure Dr Google knows where it lives.
It nukes everything you don't need. Gains you a few megs each time you run it. Works better than smit.fraud.c anyway. Then again, that may as well have nuked everything too. Lucky me.
Originally posted by VandalizerThere are some good tools that can rid you of that stuff.
I had a house guest during the NZ Junior champs. We left him homo alono with the computer one night. I'm not sure what motivated him (likely the stacks of animal porn he'd been ogling), but he ended up trying to download some program that would clean out all the historys. The result was he gifted me with something called smit.fraud.c or such like. And I ...[text shortened]... tter than smit.fraud.c anyway. Then again, that may as well have nuked everything too. Lucky me.
I found out the hard way about scumware, so the first line of defense
is Spybot search and destroy, freeware, just google it in, you will
find it. The second is Ad Aware SE also a free download, finds stuff
Spybot doesn't. Third on the list is Spyware Sweeper, not free, 40 buck
US, latest definition list is about 100,000 now. Another couple of
good ones, Trojan Hunter, you can download a full version with the
latest definitions for a 30 day trial, then pay 40 bucks or so.
Another is Spyware Doctor, a newbie but they are hard at work
improveing it. One thing you have to watch out for are the fake
anti-spyware programs, proporting to be anti-spy but in fact
garbaging up your comp. Spyware Nuker is in that catagory, and there
are many others. Beware of ads that come in saying "your computer
is infected, use our XXX software to kill it" Yeah, its infected NOW!
Some other tools are AIDA 32, tells you a whole lot about what you
have on your comp, Hijack this, shows stuff running or about to run
in the background, has to be used with care, not for beginners,
and CW shredder, kills "Cool Web Search" scumware. Don.
Originally posted by sonhouseI'm afraid all that is poor advice.
There are some good tools that can rid you of that stuff.
I found out the hard way about scumware, so the first line of defense
is Spybot search and destroy, freeware, just google it in, you will
find it. The second is Ad Aware SE also a free download, finds stuff
Spybot doesn't. Third on the list is Spyware Sweeper, not free, 40 buck
US, latest defi ...[text shortened]... be used with care, not for beginners,
and CW shredder, kills "Cool Web Search" scumware. Don.
Originally posted by sonhouseSpybot is rubbish.
splain... I use those tools all the time, you can't depend on one
anti-spy ware pac, none of them get all the spam, its more like
swimming in denile...
Ad-Aware is rubbish (and unstable).
Spyware Sweeper? If you mean Spy Sweeper, then this came top in tests, beating the pants off the others.
Spyware Doctor looks like a rip-off or a rename of Spy Doctor, an old one and mostly rubbish.
Originally posted by BowmannYes I meant spy sweeper, and I use them all, and I can tell you for
Spybot is rubbish.
Ad-Aware is rubbish (and unstable).
Spyware Sweeper? If you mean Spy Sweeper, then this came top in tests, beating the pants off the others.
Spyware Doctor looks like a rip-off or a rename of Spy Doctor, an old one and mostly rubbish.
a fact spybot finds stuff that spy sweeper or ad aware doesn't.
I did this test, you can reproduce it:
run spy sweeper, let it list the bad guys. Then DON"T kill the stuff.
Run Spybot, see what each of them find. They find differant stuff.
there was a head to head test in PC World Mag about a year ago(ages
in spystuff I know) and spy sweep got the best grades but even it
only got 57 % of the known bad guys installed on a comp just for that
test. I have run extensive tests and I can assure you none of them
find it all. Its like a bunch of guys actively on the lookout for spyware
reports and the various teams don't all find the same stuff so the
definitions will have duplication but a lot of stuff is found by one
but not the other. Besides, spybot is about ten times faster than
sweep and a lot faster than ad aware. Spyware Doctor is a new one
on the lot, not a copy and that team is working hard to find new
definitions. You can tell by the definition list, spybot is up to near
30000 now, sweep is almost 100000 but spybot still finds stuff sweep
misses. The newest kid on the block is Microsoft's, they bought out
a company which MS tested out to be the best from their testing.
Its out in Beta and I am going to try it and I will subject it to the same
rigor that I used with bot, sweep and aware. There are scumbags out
there thats for sure, like Spyware Nuker, puts ads and stuff on your
comp then lists a bunch of bogus crap not even in your machine that
it magically gets rid of in about one second. Yeah, right.
Spy sweeper takes almost 30 minutes to run on my wifes machine,
a 2.8 GHZ CPU with XP and over 200,000 files read by sweep and
Norton Anti Virus. Takes a while.
Originally posted by Freddie2004in uchess a person told me to go to a site called pichunter and didnt tell me what it was. i did and it was porno and my older sis found out. she told my mom but she doesnt care, trust me you wont get in trouble, but they will call you names like perve and stuff. lolololol
oh for fukcs sake....that's on my bloody history now...what do i do when my parents want to use the computer?!?!?!?! HELP ME!😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
Originally posted by Freddie2004Even better way. Click on the history icon at the top of your browser, go to the offending artcle, right click, select delete. Dadaaaaaaa! 😛
oh for fukcs sake....that's on my bloody history now...what do i do when my parents want to use the computer?!?!?!?! HELP ME!😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
Originally posted by sonhouseFinding MORE stuff doesn't make anti-spyware software better. It's WHAT is found that counts.
Yes I meant spy sweeper, and I use them all, and I can tell you for
a fact spybot finds stuff that spy sweeper or ad aware doesn't.
I did this test, you can reproduce it:
run spy sweeper, let it list the bad guys. Then DON"T kill the stuff.
Run Spybot, see what each of them find. They find differant stuff.
there was a head to head test in PC World Ma ...[text shortened]... 2.8 GHZ CPU with XP and over 200,000 files read by sweep and
Norton Anti Virus. Takes a while.
Originally posted by Bowmannall well and good but you still haven't given any reason why you think
Finding MORE stuff doesn't make anti-spyware software better. It's WHAT is found that counts.
Spybot and ad aware suck. I got quite a number of comps back on
line after using just those two and trojan hunter, hijack this,
CW shredder and AIDA 32 (gives info on what makes up the comp,
HD capacity, RAM, CPU speed, etc.). When you just give one sentence
replies you say nothing except a razz which is exactly that, a razz
with no backup.