Re: Security Question
From: Lisa (NoOne_at_nospam.com)
Date: 08/14/05
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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:07:22 GMT
Thanks for the response Malke. The tech's warning on Adaware made me doubt
everything I had been told so thanks for reassuring me. As for Kaaza, it
was not downloaded on PC. Only one file was on it. I live alone and NO ONE
uses my PC. The tech's take on this was it was transferred via email. It's
been my understanding that this can only happen IF you open attachments from
people whom you don't know. I never do that. But he said spyware can be
transferred without opening attachments and that's what I was curious about.
If that's true, there's really no way of really protecting against it.
People with whom I correspond could transfer it unknowingly. ????
"Malke" <invalid@not-real.com> wrote in message
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> Lisa wrote:
>
>> I use Lavasoft/Adaware daily. My PC recentley crashed and the tech who
>> repaired it told me this program may have caused it. He advised me to
>> more careful with my downloads. I got this spyware recommendation from
>> Microsoft:
>>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/expert/honeycutt_spyware.mspx.
>> Does anyone agree with his opinion? I've never had a problem using
>> Adaware before and I thought it was very beneficial to keeping my PC
>> clean.Also, he printed a dump from my PC which showed a lot of junk
>> sites I had never accessed (e.g., Kazaa was set to run on Start up
>> although I never downloaded it and it did not appear in Add/Remove
>> Programs ). I use Windows XP with the SP2 download. I use AVG as well
>> as Adaware. No one else uses my PC. I was totally at a loss as to how
>> any of these bad sites got on my PC. The tech told me it was probably
>> emails. I never open attachments from anyone unknown to me. He said it
>> really doesn't matter. If their computer is infected they can pass it
>> along without their own knowledge. Is this true and if so, is there
>> ANY WAY to really protect yourself??? Dazed and confused.
>
> It is very, very, very unlikely that Ad-aware caused any problems. I
> don't think you need to run it every day though. That's overkill. As
> for how Kazaa, etc. got into your computer - someone in your household
> must have done this. While I've certainly seen some spyware do a
> driveby install on a pre-SP2 box, Kazaa has to be downloaded and
> installed by someone. There isn't any way for me to know who did this;
> you know who lives with you.
>
> This does remind me of a recent incident with one of my clients. I had
> just cleaned her machine - XP Home, SP2 - and then a few weeks later
> she was calling me again. She had tons of spyware, rogue antispyware
> programs, and pr0n links. "How did this happen?" she wailed. She never
> went to bad sites, never opened attachments. Well, we looked at the
> History for both Firefox and IE and it was just like reading a story.
> We could see the exact date and time her 10-year-old son and his little
> friend started searching for s@x stuff, what they looked at, what they
> downloaded, and where they panicked and downloaded the rogue
> antispyware program. So there you go.
>
> Malke
> --
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> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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