i hope i dont have it


this is my world; it goes round and round and round
The wolfy types like a cow

Well hoping isn't going to clean your PC Wolfy. Download a free AV scanner if yoiu don't have one, and check.

I've been a McAfee user since eons ago. Never saw the need to change to anything else. For the longest time, McAfee provided free virus data updates and only recently went to the annual subscription renewal plan a la Norton.

I use McAfee's firewall too.

@SnS - I don't notice much in the way of a performance hit with McAfee.

I wouldn't know if Norton is all that much easier to use but you just gotta use one of 'em nowdays in tandem with a firewall even if you only dial up with a 56K modem, I'd dare say.

@Anyone

1} BTW, (and honestly this does not include me) two of my co-workers at office are unable to get some pop-ups from appearing. They deny (I don't believe them) that they visited any unseemly websites but the pop-ups keep displaying young women in some risky lingerie with come hither tag lines.

Anybody know whether there's a new spybot or whatever out there that may be causing this? So far our brilliant technoids are unable to eradicate the miscreant code, wherever or whatever it is.

2} As for myself, I seem to have had my default "blank" homepage option in IE hijacked by a bot I also cannot wipe out with Spybot Search & Destroy nor with AdAware. Each day and only on first boot for the day, IE is reset to my "blank" option which, in fact takes me to an awful search site instead of my preferred home page. Again, my technoids are unable to assist me in this problem either unless, of course, I am willing to have my HD wiped and everything reinstalled.

Any help here?

Indy, I have seen some of the raunch popups come with questionable sites. or with searches that conatin certian key words. A singles dating site , that had raunch popups with it. My current IP blocks 99% of them now.

Finalday

Until that final day. /Keith Green\ (1953-1983)

porr old Ed. i will provide you with the solution to your problems later with appropriate instructions (seeing as your on yer dinner I mean "lunch" now as I'm writing this!) then you can be the envy of your colleagues and co-workers and peers as you magically whisk away their problems. Also you can tell your female IT "worker" that she's cr*p and should stick to shopping and having babies cos if she was any good she'd have fixed this in under a minute*. So-called professionals, pah, don't make me larf.

*prob not a good idea, although i say those sort of things all the time.

*bows and scrapes, bows and scrapes*

Oh great and good Tawakalna. I thank thee for thine beneficence and humbly await thine guidance with breath abated.....


Bad things are good
in Bizzaro World

you are welcome

Well? Where is it? I'd post it for everyone, Taw. That way, you can eliminate 60% of the problems that people on this forum end up asking you about. Besides, I would be interested in seeing your approach.

secret

sent it by Taw-mail

Edited by - Tawakalna on 2/11/2004 4:30:35 PM

Well, then email it to me then! I really wanna know your approach!

you surely know how to do this. Are you winding me up, Esq?

Of course I do! I am however, interested in seeing other people's approaches to spyware removal and general IE tweaking. I have to deal with this constantly at work, and I want to see if there are any shortcuts I can take.

Been running Ad-Aware. Found somethings. I picked up Webroots Spysweeper. It found-

1. Alexa toolbar
2. NavExcel
3. Webhancer
4. Bargin Buddy
5. EUniverse
all that ad-aware did not find. Its worth the money. Just an idea.

Finalday
A free trial of it can be gotten here. spysweeper


Until that final day. /Keith Green\ (1953-1983)

Edited by - Finalday on 2/22/2004 12:38:12 PM

yeah i have a search bar that keeps popping up when i stat the browser. but i cant find it with adaware


this is my world; it goes round and round and round
The wolfy types like a cow