<VV> safe sex...et al (No Corvair)

[John Hower]

In addition to running Ad-Aware by Lavasoft, it's a good idea to also run 
Spybot Search & Destroy and Spyware Blaster. They're all free, they all 
play well together and Spybot often picks up files that Ad-Aware misses. 
Spyware Blaster prevents many of the trouble-prone ActiveX and script files 
from ever loading. We've cleaned up a lot of problems in the systems in a 
semi-public computer center using all three programs.

Spyware Blaster is available at http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/
Spybot at http://www.safer-networking.org/

John Hower


At 12:34 PM 4/30/04, R. Byers wrote:
>As a comment to the comment,"These Virus writers are getting very
>sophisticated," this is indeed true, but what all of us are facing is
>something relatively new called Spyware.
>Spyware is not just becoming better, it is becoming more aggressive.  Recently
>I had the misfortune to suffer its wrath.  I spent several days picking at it
>with a scalpel before I received the help I should have had from the beginning
>and I want to pass this on: www.lavasoftusa.com
>Look down on the left and there will be a download.  It's free and everyone
>should have it.
>
>One of the main perpetrators that I have found is a company called NicTech
>Networks, Inc.  Most of the files are compiled, but I found their name.  When
>I called them, they even so much as admitted what they were doing and said I
>must have "clicked on a file of advertising."   Perhaps I did, but what they
>are doing is inexcusable.  Their offer to send me some "spyware removal"
>software did not materialize.
>
>Anyway when I finished running the above lava software, it removed 218 files
>of spyware!   No wonder it was one step ahead of me all the time!!  I must
>have carved out some 20 files on my own, even after I blocked their addresses
>coming in and out!
>I hope this helps so you don't have to go through the process that I did.
>Ron Byers
>Largo, FL
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