One word - *nix
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One word - *nix
Originally Posted by skidmark
Vacuum packed Vamp
This is an area of special interest for me, I have devoted a large amount of my 6 or so years online to identifying and killing all forms of spy/mal/adware. If you don't manage to fix the problem, I can suggest 3 programs that will. All of these are free. For the love of tristank, don't get a program called "Spyware Nuker", it is the opposit of what it says it is, and will infect you with all sorts of crap. Get these 3 instead.
CWShredder
SpybotSD12
Adaware
Firewalls wont prevent spyware, using a different browser like Firefox will make a huge huge difference, because 99% of the browser exploits that allow this shit into your PC, are written to exploit Internet Explorer.
I would seriously recommend yoiu use a diff browser, IE is just poo's.
Homer you shot the zombie Flanders !
He was a Zombie?
The Loose Goose
You should count yourself lucky - I'm with Paradise (says who?) and I'm slowly receiving all the emails that were delayed last week. Today I got some from last Wednesday and Thursday. Great if they were work-related or important...
I got the Westpac one for the first time the other day - and I'm not even a customer! I was getting at least four or five a day offering either cheap Viagra or penis enlargers though - neither are on my list of must-haves!
I use the free Zone Alarm and AVG and both seem to work pretty well.
Yes, I am pedantic about spelling and grammar so get used to it!
HMM PIE BOB
just restored mine to a time before the virus arrived and make sure it doesn't get you
Whats that star?, its the deathstar, what does it do?, it does death!
Geriatric hippie
It's called "phishing" - a scam where the scammers set up a website that looks for all the world like your bank's site and they ask you to confirm your username and password on line. You then find all your accounts empty (on the off-chance that there was something in them).
ACC - It's where the Enron accountants all went.
Aargh, photos!
Westpac knows about the email....
https://sec.westpac.co.nz/IOLB/newSession
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh sooner or late
And how can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his Gods
Has left the building
I use:
Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE(removes adware)
SpyBot Search and Destroy(removes spyware)
Spyware Blaster(prevents spyware)
AVG free(anti-virus)
A2(trojans/virus)
WormGuard(prevents)
All are FREE programs and can be easily downloaded from places like Download.com.
Have heard of people saying that free stuff is crap but we virtually never have any problems and if we do we're able to remove the threats quickly and efficiently.
f*sakes.Putsomeclotheson!
Those of us running on corporate lans / wans don't get to make that call.
Same for Apple / whatever other alternatives get suggested.
Forum whore
I've the same trojan/virus for a week and been getting rid of other associated viruses. I've got and have used Adaware, AVG, and Hijack This.
Hijack This is a mapping programme that I don't fully understand but it saves a log file that you can send to someone knowledgable who tells you what to delete.
I'll use the others you've mentioned too then report back.
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the evening,
we will remember them
Aargh, photos!
format C:/ might work
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh sooner or late
And how can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his Gods
Forum whore
Though presumably on corporate LAN you shouldn't get problems with viruses and malware. If you do your IS department need a rev up.
The privileges of being a sysadmin. The plebs get Windows. I get AIX, Solaris 10, and whatever flavour of Linux I feel like dabbling with. And DOS.
Aargh, photos!
Linux, you HEATHEN
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh sooner or late
And how can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his Gods
Forum whore
Isn't Linux that dude from the Peanuts cartoons?
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the evening,
we will remember them
Playin' around
No, it wont . . . cause someone has knocked your slash over.
Motu - rather than blocking an individual address, have you tried *@westpac.com.au? That should get the majority. Or you could try putting a filter in to check all subject lines for the words "westpac bank" as almost all of the emails have this.
Everyone should note that your bank (whichever bank that might be) will NEVER ask you for your passwords via email. In fact, they do not send out automated emails like this at all. The only time you should treat an email from a bank as being legit is if you knew about it before hand, and it came directly from someone you had been dealing with at the bank.
Retired
Hitcher, time to fess up to the world and tell us what sites you were looking at while Mrs H was at work... come on... we're all family here.
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