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Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux)
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Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:23:04 GMT
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> the system behind my hardware router/firewall. The only thing left is an
> annoying little thing that happens in Internet Explorer--I know that many of you
> will say that this is the problem right there--i.e. IE ;) but it's what's on the
> system and I have to use it at work 'n such, so I'll stick with it. Anyway,
> after IE's open, about 1-2 minutes later a 'search' window appears at the left
> with all sorts of dumb links. Can't find in the registry where to stop this
> from occurring. Maybe I shuold have put this in o.t.geek instead, but I trust
> that rtl lurkers are pretty smart as well.
Same problem with W2K.
I used Spybot S&D <http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html> and
Adaware <http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/> but it kept
coming back...
I eventually resorted to HijackThis
<http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html> which is
definately the swiss army knife of spywareware removal tools. Doesn't
actually identify spyware by signature but identifes all spyware type
things, including Browser Helper Objects, which are often desired
things. Big caution here as one can do more damage than good with
this baby.
When it was clean I used: IE Spyad
<https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/resource.htm> to add a huge list
of known spyware sites to my restricted list, and installed
SpywareBlaster <http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html>
to provide real-time blocking.
I also got the whole family moved over to Firefox
<http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/> as a default web browser
and Thunderbird <http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/> for
mail.
-Rob.
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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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