Sunday, September 04, 2005
SpyWare Scam?:
It looks like I am starting to win my virus battle. Still not sure and still have a lot of stuff to reinstall. I did have one setback this week and that is why I am still boring you with my digital sickness.
A reader sent me an email with links to an upgrade for Spybot Search and Destroy, a program that I have used for years. I am going to assume that this was a well-meaning attempt at a kindness.
The site that the link led me to listed a number of top of the line anti-spyware products but would download only an alleged rogue software product named NoAdware. See a review here: adwarereport
So I say to myself what the hell I`m running 3 programs now so lets give it a try. I run it and it runs superfast comeing up with 18 major spyware hits, 5 of them registry keylogger infections. I hit the clean infections button and got a $29.99 register to clean high-pressure sales pitch.
Now I have been running anti-spyware and virus scans 5 or 6 times a day since I got hit 3 weeks ago. Is this product so much faster and better than the top of line stuff I have been running? Or is there a strong aged seafood aroma emanating for the general vicinity of Denmark?
I passed up the opportunity to give them my hard-earned money and did a lot of spyware scans with Ad-Aware, PC-Cillin, and Spybot. I did find one registry resident piece of Spyware with a path that points straight back to, you guessed it, the NoAdware product.
It turns out that most of the false positives are Windows components whose removal would severally damage the computer operating system. First, do no Harm! How do some alleged slimes sleep at night? ¶ 9:13 AM
It looks like I am starting to win my virus battle. Still not sure and still have a lot of stuff to reinstall. I did have one setback this week and that is why I am still boring you with my digital sickness.
A reader sent me an email with links to an upgrade for Spybot Search and Destroy, a program that I have used for years. I am going to assume that this was a well-meaning attempt at a kindness.
The site that the link led me to listed a number of top of the line anti-spyware products but would download only an alleged rogue software product named NoAdware. See a review here: adwarereport
So I say to myself what the hell I`m running 3 programs now so lets give it a try. I run it and it runs superfast comeing up with 18 major spyware hits, 5 of them registry keylogger infections. I hit the clean infections button and got a $29.99 register to clean high-pressure sales pitch.
Now I have been running anti-spyware and virus scans 5 or 6 times a day since I got hit 3 weeks ago. Is this product so much faster and better than the top of line stuff I have been running? Or is there a strong aged seafood aroma emanating for the general vicinity of Denmark?
I passed up the opportunity to give them my hard-earned money and did a lot of spyware scans with Ad-Aware, PC-Cillin, and Spybot. I did find one registry resident piece of Spyware with a path that points straight back to, you guessed it, the NoAdware product.
It turns out that most of the false positives are Windows components whose removal would severally damage the computer operating system. First, do no Harm! How do some alleged slimes sleep at night? ¶ 9:13 AM
