I had a nightmare

Post by **Kozak** » Sun 30 Jan, 2005 9:52 am

Real life: homesearch adware has been hooked to my browser IE for like 2 months. It causes slow start times for about:blank and random pop ups. 3 days ago I installed Firefox and everything was gone.

Nightmare: Tonight I had a nightmare. I started up Firefox and homesearch was there i was all integrated with the browser and I couldn't get rid of it. Random pop ups everywhere! Aaaaaaah! What has become of me?!

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Sun 30 Jan, 2005 11:29 am

LOL Man...

Duck · Post by **Duck** » Sun 30 Jan, 2005 11:52 am

Maarten, I think you need to see a doctor

Weird enough I'm downloading lots and lots of things but I never got a single piece of spyware on my computer. I'm not running any antivirus or antispyware tools and still, I'm never affected. I know which websites to avoid i guess.

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Sun 30 Jan, 2005 3:03 pm

I think the most dangerous sites to visit are ROMs download site. At school I got like 3 or 4 viruses by downloading Super Mario Bros 3.

teoryn · Post by **teoryn** » Sun 30 Jan, 2005 3:06 pm

Good thing it was only a nightmare.

What have you done to clean your computer of spyware/adware? If you have something like that on your browser you could very well have a lot of other stuff on your system.

Post by **benryves** » Sun 30 Jan, 2005 3:31 pm

Microsoft's new AntiSpyware is the business. It cleans a lot more than Spybot and does it in a far less intrusive manner.
The thing I like about the new release of IE (IE6SP2) is the ability to just switch off BHO. That way if someone writes a malicious installer (not even IE related - a lot of freeware ships with spy/adaware) you can just stop it from running.
As it stands I'm totally spyware/adaware free

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Sun 30 Jan, 2005 5:41 pm

Come on, it's not hard to keep them out. Using a firewall and the only non-bloated graphical browser

seems to do the trick for me. BHO? What's that?

Post by **benryves** » Sun 30 Jan, 2005 5:45 pm

CoBB wrote:Come on, it's not hard to keep them out. Using a firewall and the only non-bloated graphical browser seems to do the trick for me. BHO? What's that?

Browser Helper Object - plugins (Java, Flash &c), toolbars (search bars), download managers &c.

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Sun 30 Jan, 2005 7:21 pm

I guess the smiley wan't enough here. Tough luck for me.

Post by **benryves** » Sun 30 Jan, 2005 8:02 pm

CoBB wrote:I guess the smiley wan't enough here. Tough luck for me.

Sorry, were you makign a joke? My sense of humour is at ground level at the moment.

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Sun 30 Jan, 2005 8:14 pm

well, luckily firefox doesn't have them stupid search bars and crap. Even better: i can use free progs that fuck up my IE and i don't mind, i don't use it anyway ^_^.
Thanks a lot, Mozilla!

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Sun 30 Jan, 2005 9:05 pm

I've already seen my Mozilla browsers hijacked.

shadowing · Post by **shadowing** » Mon 31 Jan, 2005 12:53 am

leofox wrote:well, luckily firefox doesn't have them stupid search bars and crap. Even better: i can use free progs that fuck up my IE and i don't mind, i don't use it anyway ^_^.
Thanks a lot, Mozilla!

That's so true.

I don't use that Microsoft one. Even with it, everyone has spyware. I'd rather use two: Spybot, and Ad-aware.

currahee · Post by **currahee** » Wed 09 Feb, 2005 12:41 am

leofox wrote:well, luckily firefox doesn't have them stupid search bars and crap. Even better: i can use free progs that fuck up my IE and i don't mind, i don't use it anyway ^_^.
Thanks a lot, Mozilla!

Amen!

I use Firefox

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