Re: Recurring Spyware
- From: "Dave B" <mail@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 13:08:59 -0400
Your in for a rough ride. Microsoft support is never going to get your
machine 100% clean of spyware, just ain't gonna happen. I can guarantee that
you knowingly or unknowingly installed spyware on your PC, that's the only 2
ways it could have gotten on there.
"Karl in Scottsdale" <KarlinScottsdale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:4CA099AD-6D7F-4B21-8D82-79D8D2109CC3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So, Panda,
You are saying, definitively, that there is NO way my computer can receive
Spy Ware unless I install it myself, knowingly or unknowingly - is that
your
thesis?
Furthermore, you are suggesting that the Tech Support folks at MS, having
spent much time helping me clean my system in detail using probably most
of
the steps outlined in Stanley Shenan's reply to my post, are incompetent -
and they left some Spy Ware somewhere on my system that magically 'woke-up'
3-days later to attempt to re-infect my system?
I assure you, Panda, after the second Spy Ware event, there is no way in
h*** that I knowingly or unknowingly installed Spy Ware on my computer. My
Zone Alarm is now set to the highest protection possible, Ad-Aware and
Ad-Watch are running full time, SpyBot S&D resident is NOW (since
yesterday)
running full time, and I have the most up to date version and definitions
for
Norton Anti Virus, as well as a fully current version of IE.
I don't browse porn sites, I don't open email that contains attachments
(unless I know the sender and expect an attachment). This computer had
been
perfect prior to the initial Browser Hijack event, and I have always been
as
cautious as I know how to be - the browser hijack was the result of an
impatient 'click' while researching information on the web. hastily, I
tried
to click no on something and wham!
Lastly, I appreciate everyone's help and input, but there is no way I am
downloading anything from anyone's website unless I am speaking DIRECTLY
to a
MS Support person and they say it's OK to do so, but thanks anyways to
those
with sincere good intentions.
In the end, I find it staggeringly paradoxical, that no programmer
anywhere
on earth, can write a program that can literally stop in it's tracks, any
software from installing itself on MY COMPUTER, REGARDLESS of the tricks
they
use (no means yes, etc) without ME saying it's OK! In other words, kids, I
should NOT have to rely on the software that is trying or succeeding at
installing itself to STOP the Install - WINDOWS should have its OWN app
that
will LOCK the registry and LOCK whatever loopholes these folks use to
access
people's computers - so get to work on it.
Thank you,
.
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