A thread about: viruses, spyware and whatnot

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Sounds heaps like a virus. Two possibilities:

1. Use Firefox
2. Scan for viruses

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link

oooooh I just got the search page again when I tried to put securit.kolla.de in the address frame. This came up: res://mshp.dll/url_error.html#security.kolla.de

Scanning for viruses doesn't work as my Norton has gone all batty. What is Firefox?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Firefox is an alternate browser. http://mozilla.org

Seriously, I'd recommend getting a different virus thingy, it's doing stuff that's too weird to be just spyware.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:53 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, that firefox. Well see, I've been using Opera and Mozilla for a while, and while the virus doesn't affect them nearly as badly as IE, it still slows down a lot of functions on my machine. And I'd like IE to be fixed, not just use a work-around. Suggest any good anti-virus stuff (since my Norton is fucked?)

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmm. Vet? That's the only one I think of. They use Norton at work.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, Vet's Australian [no idea where you are]:

http://www.vet.com.au/

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link

America.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah. Vet's probably no good then. :)

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 05:59 (nineteen years ago) link

AntiVir is a goodie and free to download. it located a virus I had that Nortons hadnt detected, and got rid of it easily.

― donna (donna), Friday, 18 June 2004 06:42 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

lately i've been so inundated with spyware that i gave up removing it. but now i'm scared about these dialers that i've read about. "hijack this" is too technical for me, i have a hard time committing to deleting files that i'm not 1000% sure are malicious. spybot:search and destroy isn't getting ALL the malicious stuff. what's the best freeware i can download to scan AND remove the stuff automatically, without requiring me to mess around in the registry (i've done that, reluctantly, on occasion)?

― m. (mitchlnw), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

reformat your hardrive, never install anything ever

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

go for AdAware, at Lavasoft.de

my mum called me earlier today, and i had to patiently explain to her never to install anything advertised in a pop-up ad...

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, use a firewall. I like ZoneAlarm.

― Gold Teeth II (kenan), Friday, 8 October 2004 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link

In my opinion, everyone needs three things:

Anti Virus Program
Firewall
Spyware Remover

And update all these regulary and have the firewall running constantly. I recently got my comp clean and it's great, so...here's what I use (these are all free and no trial)

Anti Virus: AVG http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

Firewall: Zone Alarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

Spyware: Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ AND Spybot Search And Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Saturday, 9 October 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

What's the best anti-virus program for Macs? Searching around, I only found Dr. Solomon's Virex mentioned, which is supposedly through McAfee, but their website was not helpful at all.

― Poppy (poppy), Sunday, 10 October 2004 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link

five years pass...

Which free security software do you think works best? What is your favorites?

I plan on downloading a couple programs but am having trouble choosing from a huge list

― @( * O * )@ (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 7 August 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link

www.apple.com/macbook/

― markers, Saturday, 7 August 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link

I use AVG and haven't had any problems.

― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 7 August 2010 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link

I use avast! and haven't had any problems.

― StanM, Saturday, 7 August 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link

I guess I've decided on avsat!, zonealarm and malwarebyte's
I might switch to AVG if avast sucks

― @( * O * )@ (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 7 August 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Critical flaws revealed to affect most Intel chips since 1995

Most Intel processors and some ARM chips are confirmed to be vulnerable, putting billions of devices at risk of attacks. One of the security researchers said the bugs are "going to haunt us for years."

http://www.zdnet.com/article/security-flaws-affect-every-intel-chip-since-1995-arm-processors-vulnerable

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link

Keep up dude we’re on the intel thread

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link

i did search for exploit : /

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link

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