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 Dec 21 2005, 04:44 AM
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 consiglieri  Member of Graphics Dept. Posts: 2343 Joined: 13-August 04 From: Michigan, U.S.A.  |
So I did a bad thing and downloaded Kazzaa (I know, I know). And it of course loaded my computer with ads and spyware, so I then removed it because it could not find what I wanted. then proceded to remove that ads and spys. and I found out that there is a newer version of spybot 1.4 (I have been using spybot S&D) since I use firefox I rarely get ads or spies, so I never checked fo an up date
spybot1.4 if you think about getting kazza look at this This post has been edited by Sir-Kill: Dec 21 2005, 04:44 AM -------------------- |
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Dec 28 2005, 09:29 AM
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 Supremacy of the Metal Kingdom  Mod Developer Posts: 223 Joined: 1-September 05 From: Bulgaria |
QUOTE(K'aeloree @ Dec 22 2005, 02:29 PM) balduran-- are you using Norton with Windows XP? If so... DON'T.  There have been many complaints that Norton Antivirus is somewhat incompatible with Windows XP, because of the way it runs files. Norton is fine with any other operating system ('95, '98, '2000) but from what I've heard (and experienced!) I would say get rid of it ASAP and get something like Lavasoft Ad-Aware, and Spybot Search and Destroy. Those are the ones I use, and they work brilliantly. I have WinMe with Norton 2003, although I upgrade it all the time with the new definitions. Actually I managed to get rid of the trojan. I noticed that it was resident in the same two files over and over again, so last thursday I decided to format my hard drive and reinstall everyhting. Now I have no problem, except for the fact I can, for some reason, no longer compress my video files the way I did before. But that isn't really a problem. -------------------- Blessed be the one who has nothing to say, and yet remains silent.
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Sir-Kill Adware and Spyware Dec 21 2005, 04:44 AM
dragon_lord And that's why you should of used the lite ver... Dec 21 2005, 05:15 AM Sikret If you were looking for music files and movies, I ... Dec 21 2005, 06:34 AM Sir-Kill no not music nor movies and win mx is now dead. tr... Dec 21 2005, 07:02 AM Baronius Why do you use Kazaa? (Strong)DC++ is a much more ... Dec 21 2005, 12:34 PM Rabain I use Limewire, clean, easy and a nice search tool... Dec 21 2005, 12:43 PM Baronius I forgot that DC++ requires you to share a nice am... Dec 21 2005, 12:50 PM Sir-Kill Kazza should only be preferred over sticking a for... Dec 21 2005, 02:23 PM balduran You know, I recently aquired a trojan for my PC. I... Dec 22 2005, 09:46 AM kulyok Aw, it's a pain, I know. Try Avast.com - I hav... Dec 22 2005, 10:08 AM K'aeloree balduran-- are you using Norton with Windows XP?
... Dec 22 2005, 11:29 AM kulyok Lavasoft Ad-Aware misses nasty stuff, confirmed. :... Dec 22 2005, 12:03 PM K'aeloree Ouch, does it? I've never had any problems wit... Dec 23 2005, 02:44 AM seanas everything misses something. i've found a comb... Dec 23 2005, 09:54 AM underdog I find that Kaspersky AV catches almost everything... Dec 28 2005, 06:02 PM ronin69hof Use Linux.....
I only boot into windows to play ... Dec 28 2005, 08:33 PM Sir-Kill well for the past week I have been trying to get r... Jul 10 2007, 12:57 PM balduran Basically Linux based PC is a good choice for inte... Jul 10 2007, 08:39 PM Baronius There is a common misbelief (at least there was) t... Jul 10 2007, 09:03 PM
Sir-Kill yeah, that is what it was doing downloading trojan... Jul 11 2007, 01:24 AM |
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