sry

ohsexygirlfriend said:PepiMK's CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller removal tool~~ when i click on that link, i get a 'no page to display' message.
i need that fix very badly.
btw, all my pop-up windows are sticking on the lower 1/3 of my screen. why & how to fix.
Try the link for "CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller (v1 and v2)" as this is the same thing, but a different link.

i ran spyware S&D and adware and the new microsoft thing and my comp still runs abnormally slow

OD, you need to update the year on the title, we're at the new year of 2005 now.

I spent 2 hours disinfecting a trojan from a system today. Every scanner with most recent updates missed it. It installs itself in c:\\\\system volume information\\\\upnpclient.exe. It appears to use port 25, the MS UPnP port as a back door. It runs two services, both UPnP clients. It's easy to remove if you disable simple file sharing to access that folder. It was blocked by my firewall, but was eating enough cycles that I noticed a typing lag. Heres the relevant hijackthis log line:

O23 - Service: Universal Plug and Play Device Client - Unknown - c:\\\\System Volume Information\\\\upnpclient.exe (file missing)

I've seen this type of exploit before, but this appears to be a new one the scanners are missing. I even run Pestpatrol in active mode and it blew past it. It apparently came packaged in a small file viewer installer I downloaded from a newsgroup post. The file passed the AV scan as clean. In this case I broke my own rules about knowing the source and got burned.

edit: If you have this thing it's a bigger security risk than I originally thought. One package is a password/CC# logger. There's a good discussion on Wilders Security on detection/removal: link
This thing hasn't been added to any of the AV software updates as of this entry.

NONE OF THE SUGGESTIONS HERE RECOGNIZE YAHOO'S "Web Beacons". HOW DO WE KNOW IF THIS IS SPYWARE IS ACTIVE?

From another post:

Yahoo is now using something called "Web Beacons" to
track Yahoo Group users around the net and see what you're doing
and where you are going, similar to cookies.

Yahoo is recording every website and every group you
visit. Take a look at their updated privacy statement:
Yahoo
(http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy)
Here's how to opt out!!!

About half-way down the privacy statement page, in the
section on cookies, you will see a link that says web beacons.

Click on the phrase web beacons. That will bring you
to a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network."
In this section you'll see a little "click here to opt
out" link that will let you opt-out of their new
method of snooping.

Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted.

Notice the "Success" message on the top of the next
page.

DO NOT hit the "Cancel Opt-out" button ... if clicked,
it will *undo* the opt-out. Feel free to forward this
to other groups or folks you know have Yahoo accounts Yahoo

Windows XP has done it again.

The beta version of windows antispyware is out.
It rocks. Nothing like PK2. I am surprise by the number of hits it had despite the regular other programs already running (Spybot, adaware etc).
I am convinced its a must for every xp user. Gives you a full description of the catches and even references to read more about the property of the malwares. Has a protection against the hijacking your home page, severity gauge etc. Best of all its free.

Here is the link:
Microsoft's beta v. antispyware

Here's some software that is being offered for free to home users:

http://www.prevx.com/prevxhome.asp

It pro-actively prevents spyware, adware, worms, etc. from being installed on your PC in the first place.

hi, for some reason, the idle time set before my screensaver turns on changed to 180 minutes from 1 minute.
why would something like this happen?
i live in a dorm, and my door is usually unlocked. do you think someone came in and did something to my computer when i went out, but before the 1 minute idle time and changed the idle time from 1 min to 180?
i set the password required for logging in back from the screensaver.
i scanned my computer with mcafree virus scanner, adaware, and spybot and found nothing unusual.
i hope no one took my files off my computer.

titewad said:Here's some software that is being offered for free to home users:

http://www.prevx.com/prevxhome.asp

It pro-actively prevents spyware, adware, worms, etc. from being installed on your PC in the first place.DragonsLore - what are your thoughts on this tool?