kain Posted April 5, 2003 i dont know about yall, but its become waay out of hand. imean i had to reinstall everything cus i was infected with a spyware worm. it was called lop. luckily, i was able to keep my mp3,s and my porn. but all my other shit was gone. o well. my system runs 100% better now. but still. it should be illegal to instal spyware on oyur computer withought you knowing. i think this clearly falls into ( the invasion of privacy ) part. i know they dont collect information, but their just nagging. also, pow works good for popups. analogx.com(sp?) 0 Share this post Link to post
Use Posted April 5, 2003 the only difference between spyware and a virus is YOU let the spyware in on one of the shitty programs you've been downloading. Oh and reinstalling everything is lame, because there's software out there specificly designed to remove spyware and their ilk. 0 Share this post Link to post
DOOM Anomaly Posted April 5, 2003 Epyo said:best day of my life was when I got adaware. Yes, Adaware works very well for me as well. :D 0 Share this post Link to post
Opulent Posted April 5, 2003 What the heck do you guys do that you need adaware? 0 Share this post Link to post
Naked Snake Posted April 5, 2003 Technically, you're given knowledge of the spyware prior to installation, though nobody ever bothers to read it. It's all there in the TOS and stuff, so, it's "legal", for now anyway. 0 Share this post Link to post
Kinsie Posted April 5, 2003 Opulent said:What the heck do you guys do that you need adaware? DivX codec, Kazaa, Dope Wars shareware... 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted April 5, 2003 On a side note, how do I turn off these fucking messenger adverts that keep popping up under XP? 0 Share this post Link to post
Ultraviolet Posted April 5, 2003 For one, nowhere in the US Constitution, and probably not in many other nations' constitutions', is there any protection of privacy. One just assumes that it comes with the capitalistic right to property, I guess, and it's a right that everyone assumes they have. No, privacy is something that you must secure for yourself. Second, Ad Aware is great, but Spybot Search & Destroy can eliminate adware/spyware modules from host programs, replacing them with dummies, still allowing the host program to work, so you can keep your Kazaa shit, whereas Ad Aware just targets programs that are exclusively spy/adware. Spybot also supposedly has more signatures listed in its signature file. Like Ad Aware, it is free for personal use. 0 Share this post Link to post
Disorder Posted April 5, 2003 Adaware rules. If that doesn't work, throw a MOAB on spywarecompany's. 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted April 5, 2003 pritch said:On a side note, how do I turn off these fucking messenger adverts that keep popping up under XP? Here. 0 Share this post Link to post
Szymanski Posted April 5, 2003 Use adaware and 'spybot - search and destroy' and you should be problem free. 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted April 5, 2003 Grazza said:Here. I tried that already, their method failed to unregister an OCX entry and XP aborted the uninstall. 0 Share this post Link to post
NightmareZer0 Posted April 5, 2003 only problem with adaware it takes fucking forever for a update 0 Share this post Link to post
kain Posted April 6, 2003 well i tried everything. seems it got rid of the adware that i didnt care about. it didnt get rid of lop. aparently it is a worm and it dasables all your anti virus protection. it sucked. there was no way ( for me ) to fix it. accept reinstall. 0 Share this post Link to post
Melfice Posted April 6, 2003 Heh, I wonder how much Spyware I have on my computer at this point 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted April 6, 2003 Over Christmas break, I ran Adaware on my family's comp as part of the whole while-I'm-home maintainence. The results showed about four hundred ad progs on a three-year-old machine. Now, Adaware is part of my monthly hard drive cleanup. Virus scan -> Adaware -> Scandisk -> Defrag for happy healthy harddrive. :D 0 Share this post Link to post
Ubik Posted April 6, 2003 I run Adaware after every single program installation on my computer to make sure there's no covert shit going on in there. And I run it fairly regularly just as a habit of computer maintenance. It's a fantastic little proggy. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ultraviolet Posted April 6, 2003 IMJack: Now try Spybot and see what AdAware missed. :P I use both just incase neither gets everything, which can be the case. 0 Share this post Link to post
kain Posted April 7, 2003 exactly i tried both and it still didnt get rid of all the spyware, especially lop. 0 Share this post Link to post