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ExplodingEyeBall
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Think this system might have some problems???
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| « Last Edit: Aug 23rd, 2004, 12:49pm by ExplodingEyeBall » |
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Re: Spyware??
« Reply #1 on: Aug 23rd, 2004, 1:13pm » |
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I think there is a good chance it does PEBKAC
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Re: Spyware??
« Reply #2 on: Aug 23rd, 2004, 2:31pm » |
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LMMFAO!!! That's the worst case of user level cranio-rectal insertion I have ever seen.
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Mark C
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Re: Spyware??
« Reply #3 on: Aug 23rd, 2004, 3:52pm » |
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He he he ......I had an idea to see if I could fill an entire screen with toolbars...guess this proves there are no new ideas.....LOL....
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ExplodingEyeBall
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Re: Spyware??
« Reply #4 on: Aug 23rd, 2004, 4:09pm » |
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This was actually done on purpose by me at my work bench so I could test a new version of Ad-aware.
I have seen people on staff here come pretty close though.
One of my techs and I decided to try and fill up the entire screen with toolbars and had a lot of success.
We had to quit though. There was so much going on with all of the toolbars and spyware that came with them that the system started getting I/O errors repeatedly.
The new version of Ad-aware cleaned it up retty good. It did leave some stuff that I was able to remove by making some registry tweaks and deleting some files.
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BTW: Root.... I didn't know what PEBKAC meant so I googled it. I think that we will be using it a lot in our work order resolutions now. LMAO
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| « Last Edit: Aug 23rd, 2004, 4:12pm by ExplodingEyeBall » |
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Looks like that was fun. 
Spybot gets a lot adaware misses, but will get some stuff you need if you arent careful  Been there done that oncet!
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Re: Spyware??
« Reply #6 on: Aug 24th, 2004, 9:48am » |
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lol!
The college girl next door had me look at slow response time problems over the weekend. She had 4 toolbars plus the 6-inch-long tray-fulla-shit.
Has anyone fixed a machine that did NOT have mywebsearch, smileycentral, weatherbug and gator/gain? I am so phucking tired of seeing those.
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ExplodingEyeBall
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Re: Spyware??
« Reply #7 on: Aug 24th, 2004, 9:52am » |
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Hey Rock...
I've put a hosts file on our staff systems here that won't even allow access to most of the known URLs for some of this stuff.
It's been a long time since I've had to deal with smileycentral or gator/gain.
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Re: Spyware??
« Reply #8 on: Aug 24th, 2004, 10:08am » |
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That custom hosts file is a good idea.
Back in the early days of popups there used to be a frequently-updated hosts file going around to block the most common popup servers. Worked for a year or so... now just too many to track... plus many are served off unsuspecting infected hosts.
But I like the idea for the key spyware sites.
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