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Ralph Caswellrccoffee
Last night or early this morning, I downloaded updates
for all my anti-malware programs for my new Win XP/Home.
I have installed:
1. Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Plus with Ad-Watch(paid)
2. Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta 1 (free)
3. Webroot Spy Sweeper(paid)
4. Bill P. Studio Win Patrol (for cookies)(free)
5. Symantec Norton Internet Security 2005 (paid)
6. PC Tool Spyware Doctor (free version so I cannot
remove anything without paying $30-$40 but I do know
where the problem(s) is/are).
I ran scans offline on my computer this morning.
Lavasoft AASEP found the usual MRUs. No problem there.
All the other programs found nothing EXCEPT Spyware
Doctor. There were two third-party cookies (I used Win
Patrol to delete the specific cookies) BUT there was
NetVision Dialer which attempts to dial high-cost phone
numbers using a modem. It was at C>Program Files>AOL
9.0> and the file was named accdef.exe. I had immunized
my computer using Spyware Doctor. So, I found accdef.exe
in my AOL 9.0 file. It controls the settings for AOL. I
deleted it, ran Spyware Doctor and NOTHING.
I sent an e-mail explaining this to (e-mail address removed)
so that they would be aware of NetVision. They sent me a
nice reply and said that it would be forwarded to the
product team but suggested that I put a notice here to
let everyone who looks know that a problem exists and how
I handled it.
Good luck,
for all my anti-malware programs for my new Win XP/Home.
I have installed:
1. Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Plus with Ad-Watch(paid)
2. Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta 1 (free)
3. Webroot Spy Sweeper(paid)
4. Bill P. Studio Win Patrol (for cookies)(free)
5. Symantec Norton Internet Security 2005 (paid)
6. PC Tool Spyware Doctor (free version so I cannot
remove anything without paying $30-$40 but I do know
where the problem(s) is/are).
I ran scans offline on my computer this morning.
Lavasoft AASEP found the usual MRUs. No problem there.
All the other programs found nothing EXCEPT Spyware
Doctor. There were two third-party cookies (I used Win
Patrol to delete the specific cookies) BUT there was
NetVision Dialer which attempts to dial high-cost phone
numbers using a modem. It was at C>Program Files>AOL
9.0> and the file was named accdef.exe. I had immunized
my computer using Spyware Doctor. So, I found accdef.exe
in my AOL 9.0 file. It controls the settings for AOL. I
deleted it, ran Spyware Doctor and NOTHING.
I sent an e-mail explaining this to (e-mail address removed)
so that they would be aware of NetVision. They sent me a
nice reply and said that it would be forwarded to the
product team but suggested that I put a notice here to
let everyone who looks know that a problem exists and how
I handled it.
Good luck,