Do you need HELP with SPYWARE?

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Andre Da Costa

Yes, but I thought people downloaded and installed AntiSpyware to give
voluntary feedback?
 
Rather than chase through all of these posts I'm just
going to post this here. If you have spyware that AntiSpy
can't get rid of and you would like some free advice from
a veteran of the spyware wars then get HijackThis from

http://tomcoyote.org/hjt/hjt199//HijackThis.exe

Save it (preferably to its own folder) then Open it and
select the SCAN AND SAVE LOG option.

Note where you save the log and then send it to me as an
attachment with a short note about your problem. Put
HijackThis in the subject so I will know it's not spam. I
will be glad to look at it and tell you what to do to get
rid of it for good.

Why am I doing this? I work as a Network Engineer but
unless there is a problem I have nothing to do and I'm
bored to death and besides I hate spyware. If you are
worried that I might be a scam artist you can check out my
profile on the HP forum:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/UserProfile/1,,CA655597!
1,00.html


Ron Kinner MVP

(e-mail address removed)
 
So post here and send to Ron too! Let's keep Ron busy - besides, he might
find out something we need to know here.

Ron, can I have you remote in and set up BES 4.0 for me?

JohnF.
 
John said:
So post here and send to Ron too! Let's keep Ron busy - besides, he might
find out something we need to know here.
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I can feel "flames".............. I dont think Ron,s idea is
good.
I also dont think this usenet form is a good way to solve severe
spyware problem beacuse needs of complicated logfiles AND
needs of special build program from the anti spyware community.

Technical beta issues about MSAS must of course be reported and
that can be done in this way.

If you carefully study how antispyware forum works you can
easily
see that users are guided through this mess AND certain new
unknown files can
be send for more investigation to experts.

I can´t see any other way to solve a users problem without long
frustration/wating for a new definition about a broken PC /
IE6.

Otherwise its only to give up and get Firefox
meanwhile...........
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Firefox locks up my computer and frequently quits working, requiring me to
kill it and re-open. On top of that, it is also now proven vulnerable.
 
Besides, these forums are way off from working the way they should have
worked - posts are everywhere and people are not even reading the current
posts before asking the exact same question someone posted two posts before.
I think they must all be using the web and have no concept of clicking to
another page.

Ron is not really looking to supplant these Newsgroups, he is just killing
time.
 
I have read allot of posts here and may I suggest a forum
in the style of Information Avenue administered by
Thundercloud and Cloud8. I think that`s the way it`s
suppose to read. I like the way the forum is set up and
there is no way to get lost in there. It`s all well put
together. If this forum was in that same format, I would
certainly post for sure. This is my first post and I was
brought here by interest to MSAS. You might want to check
the site out just for format reasons if nothing else.
This discussion forum is confusing at best and I`m not
crazy about the layout. Everything isn`t clear. Sorry.
I`m very interested but I tend to go into places where I
don`t have to search for an hour to find the post that
interests me. :):) later folks
 
Firefox 1.0 has a vulnerability - with proof of concept exploit published -
and no patch. See the recent US-CERT bulletins. Why does IE get nailed?
Who would you go after if you wanted to attack the largest audience? As of
December, IE still holds roughly a 93% market share - it's a no brainer why
it is always in the cross hairs. You can't tell me those two full-time
programmers at Mozilla are better than the MS coders.

Furthermore, if you have taken the time to learn IE 6.x and really learn to
use it, there should be no issues. I've never had one issue - not one.

Are you using XP SP2? Firewall enabled? You would also have the pop-up
blocker that is part of SP2. There are also additional security measures
that warn you of file downloads, etc. You should be using Zones for trusted
sites, etc. That way you can control ActiveX content.

I am anxiously awaiting IE 7.0, but you must be on XP SP2.
 
A said:
Firefox 1.0 has a vulnerability - with proof of concept exploit published -
and no patch. See the recent US-CERT bulletins. Why does IE get nailed?
Who would you go after if you wanted to attack the largest audience? As of
December, IE still holds roughly a 93% market share - it's a no brainer why
it is always in the cross hairs. You can't tell me those two full-time
programmers at Mozilla are better than the MS coders.
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http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=215221

All software program are vulnerable and they will be. I
choose the one
NOT in the "cross hair" except for Windows update and some
stupid sites
with ActiveX depending.
Furthermore, if you have taken the time to learn IE 6.x and really learn to
use it, there should be no issues. I've never had one issue - not one.
Click to expand...

MMI between IE6 and Firefox is similar.
Are you using XP SP2? Firewall enabled? You would also have the pop-up
blocker that is part of SP2. There are also additional security measures
that warn you of file downloads, etc. You should be using Zones for trusted
sites, etc. That way you can control ActiveX content.
Click to expand...

Of course i am on SP2 (from beta stage)
I am anxiously awaiting IE 7.0, but you must be on XP SP2.
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Yes and Firefox 1.1, 1.2

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From the forum link:

I love this: "DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS BUG UNLESS YOU PLAN ON FIXING IT"

That's pretty good. In other words: "Please don't share that exploit with
the world, like everyone seems to love to do with IE exploits?!$"
 
A said:
From the forum link:

I love this: "DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS BUG UNLESS YOU PLAN ON FIXING IT"

That's pretty good. In other words: "Please don't share that exploit with
the world, like everyone seems to love to do with IE exploits?!$"
Click to expand...

The remark refers to comments made ABOUT the bug. It's obvious that they
want someone to post a FIX, not another comment, Al.

For an unbiased view of vulnerabilities and how they've been handled by
the vendors, have a look here :

IE http://secunia.com/product/11/
Mozilla Firefox http://secunia.com/product/4227/

Any browser that connects to the internet is vulnerable. Period.


Steve Wechsler (akaMowGreen)

MS-MVP 2004-2005
Windows Server - Software Distribution
Windows - Security
 
A said:
From the forum link:

I love this: "DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS BUG UNLESS YOU PLAN ON FIXING IT"

That's pretty good. In other words: "Please don't share that exploit with
the world, like everyone seems to love to do with IE exploits?!$"
Click to expand...

Beacuse this is open source they want/depends on software
developer to
come with a solution, everything goes into a database, bugzilla.
Inside this database only relevant solutions should be present.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279099

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