Re: Anti-Virus, Malware and Anti-Hijacking Programs
From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 04/26/05
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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:29:21 -0400
From: "denisedenise" <denisedenise@discussions.microsoft.com>
| I have several anti-virus and spyware programs that I run several times a
| week, that include MS Malicious Software Removal Tool, AdAware, SpyBot, SBC
| Anti-Spy, McAfee VirusScan, McAfee Stinger, Trend SysClean, and I run a
| program in safe mode in DOS after I back up my registery. By the names of
| the programs, they all seem to search out viruses, worms and trojans.
|
| On two occasions within the past year, my accounts at two internet sites
| that include the transfer of money/selling or buying items have had proven
| hijacking attempts.
|
| In addition, and this is just about never heard of, when I was at WinMX
| yesterday, 3 songs in a time period of about 5 minutes were added to my list
| of songs that I wanted to download. I didn't add the songs to my list, they
| "added themselves to my list." They appeared and attempted to download. I
| instantly stopped the connection before the songs started to download and did
| a complete sweep of my computer using each program named above. It took me
| 10 hours (Trend SysClean took 8 hours!).
|
| My questions is: Do the above programs also scan for hijacking attempts or
| is there another program that I can download/run to see if someone is
| attempting to hijack my computer?
|
| I need to determine if someone is attempting to hijack my computer again
| because I just recently resumed using the 2 sites where money is involved.
All the software in the world will NOT make up for not practicing Safe Hex !
If you go to a web site that anti virus software has no definitions for then you can get
infected. The most important tool you have to use to prtect yourselof is YOU. When you
practice Safe Hex you will find that all that software is not needed. Just an active AV
application properly configured and running "On Access" scanning in the background.
-- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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