stress

[sunward]

Seems there is no stress like having a trojan program infect your computer for 3 days. Vundo or winfixer - very hard to get rid of. Adaware, AVG, and Spy-bot don't remove it. Not sure if Spy-sweeper is worth anything yet.

Mcafee antispyware is being returned Saturday (doesn't work ) and will try the Norton version after I return the Mcafee.

I did find a site that I wish I knew before:
ie-spyad which has about 5000 sites you can put in your restricted list.

As of now the screen saver is password protected ( noone did anything!) and MSN messenger is deleted.

 

[cls]

at some point it would be better to wipe the disk and reinstall. it's time for spring cleaning anyways.

 

[KermieD]

Spy Sweeper shares "Editors Choice" along with Spyware Doctor by PC Magazine, for what it's worth. McAfee, Norton, Spybot and Ad-Aware all actually rate pretty low on the list for their spyware solutions.

If you're looking for a free antivirus solution, the one that's generally rated the highest is Avira AntiVir--I used to use AVG until I read about this. When I gave it a try, it picked up 2 pieces that AVG had completely missed.

https://www.free-av.com

For a free spyware solution that's better than Spybot or Ad-Aware, check out Tenebril's SpyCatcher.

https://www.tenebril.com

 

[Stymye]

has anyone tried the microsoft antispyware beta ?

I've been using it for a few months and it's doing the job well!

 

[m85476585]

Is a trojan a virus or spyware? I think of it as a virus.

I use MS Antispyware, but it isn't perfect. Every once in a while I scan with Ad-Aware and find out that it missed something.

SpywareBlaster helps a lot too. https://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Preventing spyware is probably the bestthing to do about it.

 

[sunward]

KermieD:
Thanks for the links. Both software found items others didn't.

Things went from bad to worse. After trying to get rid of the problem, I ended up going to safe mode and that ended up having Windows not startup.

Then I couldn't get a new hard drive to be found.

Ended up with a new machine and going to xp. Lots of files to transfer over and it will take a while.

Ended up doing spring cleaning anyway.

Disappointed with the experience.

 

[starpilot]

Originally posted by stymye
has anyone tried the microsoft antispyware beta ?

I've been using it for a few months and it's doing the job well!

I've been running it for close to year now on both my desktop and my notebook. Since I installed the software I've not had ANY spyware problems. BTW I use AVG for my anti-virus software and have not had any virus related problems either.

 

[Rock_It]

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[Countdown Hobbies]

Originally posted by stymye
has anyone tried the microsoft antispyware beta ?

I've been using it for a few months and it's doing the job well!

I use it on all my PC's and it runs every night, works great too. For the most part it never finds anything though becuase it doesnt ever let much in.

 

[sunward]

Almost there.

Got most of the files transferred and programs installed.

Fun part is trying to find an activiation code for an online purchase 4 years ago.

Also will need to buy another program. Seem the daily running backup (on CD-R) wasn't closed so the CD is not readable. Just so happens one file I need on the harddrive got lost and it is on the CD-R. But can't read the disk unless I get a special purchase program.