Re: Pop-Up regarding Windows Patch
From: Bill Sanderson (Bill_Sanderson_at_msn.com.plugh.org)
Date: 05/04/04
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Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 21:40:32 -0400
You don't need to spend money, necessarily for either item (firewall or
anti-spyware tools.)
There are definitely firewalls that I'll cheerfully pay for.
anti-spyware tools, I'm not so sure about. I'll happily stick with the free
ones for now.
The average person is well served with Lavasoft's product, I think. You can
buy their commercial version and support an excellent product--the paid
version buys you some degree of pro-active prevention, rather than just
clean-up after the fact.
Then there is Spybot Search & Destroy from www.safer-networking.org Also
free, also updated regularly, and excellent.
And one more, which you might find interesting: Spyware Blaster:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/index.html
This one is technically very different from the others--It is near
instantaneous in its effect, and is a permanent solution for the particular
bugs that it targets.
Each of these critters has pluses and minuses. Spyware Blaster has no
minuses I can think of, except that it covers fewer area than the other two.
Spybot search & destroy has some settings which I consider a bit too
paranoid--you are quite safe with the items it highlights in red, however.
It is updated somewhat less frequently than Ad-aware.
Ad-aware is very solid, and I have no hesitations about removing what it
flags. Spybot may well be better at some classes of bugs, though--diallers,
for example.
You might want to try Ad-aware, then see whether Spybot Search & Destroy
finds anything more. Spyware Blaster won't say what is found or not
found--it just "innoculates" against a range of bugs. Very simple and
quick.
As I say--I don't know of a paid app to recommend that does anything better
than these do. If you want to spend money, both Ad-aware and SpywareBlaster
have paid versions or paid functionality.
"Joan NYC" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7bb601c4315d$57370680$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Do you think I am need some Spy software to avoid this
> type of thing. I am going to CompUSA tomorrow to buy
> firewall software and was wondering if I should get
> something else.
>
> I am ordinarly pretty computer savy (I used to make my
> living with it until the Indians took over :)) but am
> pretty ignorant when it comes to all this devious stuff
>
> Thanks
>
> joan
>>-----Original Message-----
>>You are absolutely correct to ignore this, and to go to
> WindowsUpdate
>>yourself and apply all critical updates offered.
>>
>>The fact that you are getting these pop-ups probably
> indicates the presence
>>of commercial spyware that targets you for such ads,
> perhaps as part of some
>>"free" bit of code you knowingly installed.
>>
>>Ad-aware, from www.lavasoftusa.com can help remove this
> sort of thing.
>>Download the free version, install it, and, on first
> run, update the
>>definitions. Then scan your machine and remove
> everything it flags.
>>
>>"Joan NYC" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> in message
>>news:796a01c4311e$2b0c9000$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>>> For some time I was getting a pop up regarding MS
>>> Security Issues
>>>
>>> It directed to a site Windows-patch.info
>>>
>>> I ignored this totally
>>>
>>> Did anyone get this and I was correct to ignore it?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> joan
>>
>>
>>.
>>
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