The "cover your tracks" aspect, as in if you do banking on the internet, use cards, ect, it covers where and what you are doing. Particularly with spywhere that can tell other computers what you are doing on your computer.

i finally got around to downloading this, and what a surprise! it's not for Windows 98

Wolfy, we have got to get you into the 2000's and XP.

send me a copy of xp then
i dont have money to do that stuff

He-who-was-once-Viator offered to send you a copy of XP not long ago Wolfy; perhaps you should take him up on it .

but even then, if i tell my parents that someone gave it to me, they would ask if i knew the person and all this stuff and they would think that its not a ligitimate copy.

To an extent, you can trust people here.
Viator, if he offered to send you a copy (i am assuming free?) would most probably send a legit copy, and they are pretty easy to tell from burnt copies (i mean, come on! even the microsoft Licensing CDs have an infinatly intricate pattern on them!). thus eliminating the Legitimisation issue.

Anyway, anyone who relies on a single anti-intrusion system is a fool. my personal computer has a total of 3 anti-spyware scanners (will be 4 with this new addition) 2 firewalls, and ARP table scanner, password security analyst software, and an anti-virus system voted in the top 10. im also attempting to acquire a WEP security analyst card for wireless. oh, and the GRC tool IDserve.exe

@boscoe: it might be an idea to set the wireless network to only allow connections from known MAC addresses. WEP cracking, from what ive heard, is fairly easy with some programming knowledge and a Wireless card with a 'Monitor Mode' command. I have a site bookmarked that is currently working on a windows WEP craking program.

Tell you what, I reinstalled Spybot - as the 'beta scanner' is crap! It picked up NOTHING at all. Ran spybot, and it picked up no less than 8 different pieces of spyware or tracker.

As of right now, MS Spyware Beta gets my personal seal of approval to join the ranks of great things - such as:
The Lead Lined Parachute
Chocolate Fireguard
Condom machine in the vatican!

*Gasp* Say it ain't so Chips!

Well it *is* a beta, but still...

Well, I wouldn't disregard MS's anti-spyware program to be totally useless. To be fair, it does pick up spyware components that Adaware/Spybot can't find. And to be fair again, Adaware/Spybot can find things that MS can't.

In short, I have to agree with Arania. There is no way that anyone can depend on just one tool for their Internet security/repair purposes.

Of course, the best way to prevent all these problems in the first place is to practice safe surfing.

Who is this guy (or girl )? First he/she promotes Firefox, and now he/she is an advocate of safe-surfing! Could we be adding another enlightened computer user to our ranks?

First of all thanks for the link on behalf of my girlfriend. Her laptop runs XP korean version; she had some difficulties the other day downloading her e-mails. When I tried to help her (can you imagine: i needed her help for translation to find 'properties' and things like that - we had muuuch fun) i got suspicious because this comp was behaving strangely. Anyway I installed this MS-Beta and run it: it found 187 (ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN) critical items, most of them "severe". Anybody more ?
After running three times this program all spyware, trojans etc. have been removed now (hopefully).

Now for my question: I ran the software on my (private) comp (it has NO internet connection and will never have it - no surprise it found only one critical item, a non-installed version of Morpheus I kept in a back-up-file of my laptop.
But I could not find out IF and if yes HOW I can use this program to scan the network.
My laptop runs W98 and that's why I can't run the tool on it - so I wanted the tool to clean the laptop (Of course the network settings are correct, filesharing allowed etc. Norton running on laptop can scan XP-system without problem)

Anybody can help me on this ?

PS: I know you want to know how come my girlfriend has so much spyware and other crap on her computer. That's what I would like to know too





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