Hello all,
I was just wanting to mention my experience from this weekend.
I'll start by saying, I have never had ANY problems with spyware on a personal pc. That is not saying that I have not helped hundreds of others that have.
This past weekend at a friends house I decided to check my email online useing his pc. What a freakin nightmare! there were so many pop-ups open as soon as i got to the pc that it looked as though the toolbar was almost full (he has DSL). Right then I started bitching to him and he acted as though it was "normal". I did a few seaches for Ad-aware and Spybot and downloaded both. In between I tried checking my mail to no avail. My mailserver is on a url that is pretty long and when clicking "ok" it would bring that "common name" crap that i'd before only heard about. After downloading and installing Ad-aware (also checking up on tek-tips) i ran it successfully. It found what seemed to be hundreds of files to be rid of and so I let it do its thing. Then I restarted the pc and BAM! " would like to access the internet...blah..blah" Thinking this was wierd I installed the newly downloaded spybot, ran it and it too found seemingly hundreds of files and programs. I clicked "fix" or somehting like that it then asked me to select a scan when restart option or something because it couldn't scan what was "already in memory" so I let it. After it reboot i ran it again and it again found an ass load and so on and so on. All I can really say now is "What the hell?!?!?"
I was going to logon to tek-tips once again to get some expert help but by that time I was fed up. I made sure what I had done hadn't blocked any internet service or screwed any settings and WALKED AWAY AND HAD A BEER remembering that it was indeed the weekend and not my pc!
For all of you out there that are having that much problems with spyware/adware, my advise: Format/Restore
While i'm at it i'll go ahead and mention something i was thinking about BEFORE all that crap this weekend. one of us needs to write up a FAQ about spyware being that alot of internet problems now days are being caused by these damn things. The way it looks, it will only get worse.
Death to spyware
"Jack of all trades. Master of none."
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I was just wanting to mention my experience from this weekend.
I'll start by saying, I have never had ANY problems with spyware on a personal pc. That is not saying that I have not helped hundreds of others that have.
This past weekend at a friends house I decided to check my email online useing his pc. What a freakin nightmare! there were so many pop-ups open as soon as i got to the pc that it looked as though the toolbar was almost full (he has DSL). Right then I started bitching to him and he acted as though it was "normal". I did a few seaches for Ad-aware and Spybot and downloaded both. In between I tried checking my mail to no avail. My mailserver is on a url that is pretty long and when clicking "ok" it would bring that "common name" crap that i'd before only heard about. After downloading and installing Ad-aware (also checking up on tek-tips) i ran it successfully. It found what seemed to be hundreds of files to be rid of and so I let it do its thing. Then I restarted the pc and BAM! " would like to access the internet...blah..blah" Thinking this was wierd I installed the newly downloaded spybot, ran it and it too found seemingly hundreds of files and programs. I clicked "fix" or somehting like that it then asked me to select a scan when restart option or something because it couldn't scan what was "already in memory" so I let it. After it reboot i ran it again and it again found an ass load and so on and so on. All I can really say now is "What the hell?!?!?"
I was going to logon to tek-tips once again to get some expert help but by that time I was fed up. I made sure what I had done hadn't blocked any internet service or screwed any settings and WALKED AWAY AND HAD A BEER remembering that it was indeed the weekend and not my pc!
For all of you out there that are having that much problems with spyware/adware, my advise: Format/Restore
While i'm at it i'll go ahead and mention something i was thinking about BEFORE all that crap this weekend. one of us needs to write up a FAQ about spyware being that alot of internet problems now days are being caused by these damn things. The way it looks, it will only get worse.
Death to spyware
"Jack of all trades. Master of none."