Re: Anti-Virus, Malware and Anti-Hijacking Programs

From: denisedenise (denisedenise_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/28/05 

Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:11:01 -0700

Hi David,

Thanks for responding to my post. I believe I do practice safe hex (good
one). The sites are as trustworthy as the MS home page. I don't surf the
net because of the dangers you mentioned.

My question is, are there anti-hijacking tool programs that I can download,
or are virus tools anti-hijacking tools in themselves?

"David H. Lipman" wrote:

> 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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