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  • You guys need to get the newest Spybot SD, it comes with a monitor that lets you know when something is trying to change your registery, VERY handy for stoping those browser stealers and other assorted annoying programs.

  • Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
 #17650  by Eric
 Sat Jul 17, 2004 10:25 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>You guys need to get the newest Spybot SD, it comes with a monitor that lets you know when something is trying to change your registery, VERY handy for stoping those browser stealers and other assorted annoying programs.</div>

 #17655  by SineSwiper
 Sun Jul 18, 2004 5:11 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Or you can just not download spyware. It doesn't take a fucking genius to figure out what's a spyware/virus.</div>

 #17658  by Eric
 Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:36 am
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Errr sometimes shit just gets installed dude.</div>
 #17669  by SineSwiper
 Mon Jul 19, 2004 12:01 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>1. Clicking <b><u>AND RUNNING</u></b> the executable on an e-mail. Looking at an e-mail won't do anything, unless you have a really old and unpatched version of Outlook Express. (And then I ask "Why the fuck are you using Outlook Express?!")

2. Clicking <b><u>AND RUNNING</u></b> an executable on the web. In the case of a virus, nobody is stupid enough to leave a paper trail like that and leave a virus on the web. That's just asking for persecution. Even then, why are you going to a site that HAS a virus on its page?! In the case of spyware, it has to have a EULA that says its spyware. If it's a program I don't know, I skim through the EULA, just to be sure.

3. Running an unpatched version of 2000/XP with the broken RPC code, or running an unpatched version of IIS. The former should be patched, and the latter shouldn't be running at all. In any case, spyware is not going to sneak in like this (no EULA), and there's just a few viruses that do this. In any case, the Windows Updater saves your ass on this one.

That's it. There is no other method. Viruses don't come in through your keyboard or speaker wire, or magically execute themselves just by looking at it. Spyware does not enter your system without your own permission, so don't give it your permission.</div>

 #17676  by Eric
 Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:30 am
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm no so much as worried about my viruses or spyware as I am when my browser's homepage suddenly changes to something else out of the blue without me clicking yes to shit.</div>

 #17689  by Tessian
 Mon Jul 19, 2004 10:29 pm
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>Spyware can be in cookies, since I immunized with Spybot I've found that a lot of ads on webpages try to load it up.</div>

 #17699  by SineSwiper
 Tue Jul 20, 2004 12:09 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Cookies are data, not executables. Spyware can't be in cookies. Stop spreading the myths!</div>

 #17714  by Kupek
 Tue Jul 20, 2004 9:12 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Javascript.</div>

 #17720  by SineSwiper
 Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:48 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I know Javascript, too. It doesn't do that. Sun's not stupid.</div>

 #17726  by Kupek
 Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:59 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Oh, you're a Javascript expert? You know all of the possible exploits? Then how else do you explain that I visit a site, and then Norton tells me it detected a trojan? I accepted nothing; it was some sort of scripting.</div>

 #17728  by Kupek
 Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:03 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... =Search</a>

Know how you tell people to google it all the time?</div>

 #17769  by SineSwiper
 Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:15 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Tell me: what web sites are you going to where the webmasters WANT to harm your computer?</div>