 | | Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —David Koudys
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| | | So I purchased a brand spankin' new 'puter system yesterday ('cause EQ2's been out for over a week now and I'm missing the lands o' norrath...) and I takes the system to work, to configure it in my spare time. So I put XP Pro ion it, get all the (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —Dan Boger
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| | | | | (...) Pft. World of Warcraft, baby! (...) I read this far before I said "IE". Then I also said "Firefox". And probably "Reinstall, and/or Spybot S&D". (...) Try Spybot - it's actually pretty good at rooting these things out: (URL) (...) Cool! Sounds (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —Rob Antonishen
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| | | | | (...) Same problem with W2K. I used Spybot S&D (URL) and Adaware (URL) but it kept coming back... I eventually resorted to HijackThis (URL) which is definately the swiss army knife of spywareware removal tools. Doesn't actually identify spyware by (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —Calum Tsang
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| | | | | (...) Okay, I'm never listening to your "I have no money for Lego". No sympathy from me. (...) It's for remote customer support, dumbass :) (...) You mean you didn't set it up behind the firewall to BEGIN WITH? Jesus, that's like running around (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —Chris Magno
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| | | | | (...) WOW, this sounds just like what happened to the "spare" computer at work. I gave it to the new guy, and it took him all of one day to infest the machine, which is connected to the corperate VPN!!!! (...) I tried all the software several people (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —Ka-On Lee
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| | | | | (...) You should just reformat and start from scratch. Your PC was completely compromised, and no amount of scanning will give you 100% guarantee that there is no custom made key logger lurking behind waiting for that credit card pattern. And use (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —Derek Raycraft
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| | | | | | I want my Mac!!! Derek (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —Chris Magno
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| | | | | (...) Dave, I was wrong about formatting your computer.... what you need is a bit of Strong bad. YEP, ol' SB has your soloution right here: (URL) timely (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —David Koudys
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| | | | | | (...) Oh My Goodness!!!!! Best Strongbad Evah!!!...!!! I couldn't stop laughing... and the little easter eggs--priceless! So much stuff! New commercial from Endeavour Enterprises-- New Gaming System - 1500 bones (with taxes) Getting hit by Spyware 2 (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —David Koudys
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| | | | | By the very fact that this post generated the wonderful responses from the rtl people, as well as lurkers, is a testament to the greatness of LUGNET. Thanks to all that responded with ideas and links to various venues to help alleviate my dilemma. (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —Greg Hyland
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| | | | | (...) Time for a Mac... -Greg (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —Derek Raycraft
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| | | | | | (...) I want my Mac!!! Derek (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | (...) Sounds like when I was helping my brother get his new computer set up on Case's campus. Connected to the gigabit fiber network in order to get the campus Symantec antivirus program installed...but before the virus scan (on an empty computer) (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —Rob Antonishen
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| | | | | | (...) I'm using 0.9 and haven't noticed this behaviour, though I have never received an email with a virus, only spam, since I started using Thunderbird. I know it doesn't open the spam, it just moves it to my Junk folder where it sits unopened. As (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | (...) My mail shows up as unread, but it's obviously looking at more than the headers to sort the mail, because otherwise Norton wouldn't notice the virus. --Bram (20 years ago, 17-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —Bryan Wong
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| | | | | (...) Yah I had the same thing happen on my WORK computer. But ever since I installed Ad-Aware, the "search window" hasn't come up again... (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux) —Keith Hui
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| | | | Dave, I just have to chip in after reading your stories. (...) OK. I say you totally do away with XP and check this guy out: (URL) Stripped-down Windows 2000 rulez>, man! :) My two cents. (Snipped Dave's spyware struggle) (...) We should all have (...) (20 years ago, 18-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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