digitalwanderer said:Adaware and SpyBot, use 'em both.
and what good would that do, exactly?_xxx_ said:How about a nice firewall?
Althornin said:and what good would that do, exactly?_xxx_ said:How about a nice firewall?
Firewalls are somewhat worthless for this kind of stuff, it often comes in on common ports you need open.
If you are refering to one that blocks outgoing requests be default and then makes you approve them, thats adifferent, but you are already infected, you can just stop it from "phoning home".
what you really need is a good IDS, that doesnt false positive bunches of stuff. To bad that doesnt exist.
You'll notice this line in my post:_xxx_ said:Althornin said:and what good would that do, exactly?_xxx_ said:How about a nice firewall?
Firewalls are somewhat worthless for this kind of stuff, it often comes in on common ports you need open.
If you are refering to one that blocks outgoing requests be default and then makes you approve them, thats adifferent, but you are already infected, you can just stop it from "phoning home".
what you really need is a good IDS, that doesnt false positive bunches of stuff. To bad that doesnt exist.
If you use a firewall always requesting your input when a program tries to access the net for the first time. The firewall works instantly after the installation.
If you are refering to one that blocks outgoing requests be default and then makes you approve them, thats adifferent, but you are already infected, you can just stop it from "phoning home".
_xxx_ said:Just wanted to say that the firewall works as well _after_ the machine's been infected, since it always checks all progs after the installation.
silence said:why get infected at all?
use Firefox. it doesnt have million holes like IE.
and when u do get infected, you still need something for cleaning cause that shit slows down comps.....
i was just recently at some client of mine, they asked me to help with their comp.....i ran both AdAware and SpyBot and got total of 350+ POSes there.
and 4 viruses also.
i installed both TB and FF there and told them i wont come again, cause unless they use IE they wont get that again....
they had everything there.....hijackers, loggers, viruses....
so i ask you again -> why getting infected in the first place, when u can use Firefox that wont allow for that shit to install?
i even set cookie control so i allowed only some 20 cookies total on my comp.....
every bloody banner add comes with cookie that is sitting on your comp.
not to mention that Alexa, which is rated as SPYWARE comes as part of IE
your choice.....your privacy....
Deepak said:Has anyone used Microsoft's beta spyware/adware removal application?? Is it good?
Bizarre commentary IMO. The interface is excellent, definitely superior to any other spyware program I've used. Frankly it was one of the first things I noticed; how well it integrates with XP's visual style - some of it even seems taken from Aero. I believe the interface was on the reasons MS bought out Giant in particular, as they're not going to have to do much to it to resemble a native MS product.Guden Oden said:Deepak said:Has anyone used Microsoft's beta spyware/adware removal application?? Is it good?
I tried it, and it's very apparent it's a program MS bought and dressed up. The UI isn't up to MS standards either from an ergonomics standpoint or visually either.
Which it shouldn't. Cookies should not be classified as spyware IMO. I've seen enough false reports of someone thinking "Oh noes! My PC is infected" when all Ad-Aware is reporting tracking cookies, which it will do again when its run a week later. MS has to target a huge range of users for this, spilling out spyware reports for something so trivial as tracking cookies will just cause confusion. I can see a PC-newbie soccer mom using this fine - Adware/Spybot? Hell no.It doesn't scan for tracking cookies either btw