Adware and Spyware Options

[Sir-Kill]

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

[Baronius]

There is a common misbelief (at least there was) that Linux can't be infected. It's, of course, nonsense. (It's another matter that there were probably less malicious programs for Linux executables than for Win32 ones).

And balduran is right, SK. In other words, if your virus "returned" even after a reformat (you used this word), then the malicious file could come in again, because your protection wasn't proper. Maybe you visited the same site or something like that.

A replicating multiplying one it started as spyware but it kept loading a new virus once the old one was gone.

Basically, it must be malware which downloads trojans and other things to your machine. Unpleasant stuff.