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(Message started by: ExplodingEyeBall on Aug 23^rd, 2004, 12:44pm)

Title: Spyware??
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Aug 23^rd, 2004, 12:44pm

Think this system might have some problems???

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b4d602b3127cceb4aafed4ef7f0000005610

Title: Re: Spyware??
Post by Root on Aug 23^rd, 2004, 1:13pm

I think there is a good chance it does PEBKAC
[smiley=smokin.gif]

Title: Re: Spyware??
Post by Gator on Aug 23^rd, 2004, 2:31pm

LMMFAO!!! That's the worst case of user level cranio-rectal insertion I have ever seen.

Gator

Title: Re: Spyware??
Post by Mark C on Aug 23^rd, 2004, 3:52pm

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....

Mark-who-hates-toolbars

Title: Re: Spyware??
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Aug 23^rd, 2004, 4:09pm

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.

Pat

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

Title: Re: Spyware??
Post by Redneck on Aug 23^rd, 2004, 7:45pm

Looks like that was fun. ;;D
Spybot gets a lot adaware misses, but will get some stuff you need if you arent careful :-[ Been there done that oncet!

Title: Re: Spyware??
Post by Rock_Lobster on Aug 24^th, 2004, 9:48am

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.

Title: Re: Spyware??
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Aug 24^th, 2004, 9:52am

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.

Title: Re: Spyware??
Post by Rock_Lobster on Aug 24^th, 2004, 10:08am

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.