Trojans, spyware, adware and all around malware

I know it's kinda an ethical gray-zone, but sometimes behind their backs, I install Adaware, run it, clean the shit up, and then uninstall it. But hey, if they're already not paying that much attention, would they really notice anyway?

(sorry.)

They're in the startup folder on your start menu (there's an "all users" one and one for each user).

Or they're in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CurrentVersion/Run/
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/... same as above

in the Windows registry. You can look at this by running regedit.exe from the Start->run prompt.

Ps: the thing on the right next to the clock is called the "system tray".

This won't help if it's being kicked off by another process (i.e. media player).

On typing this I noticed an odd one in my registry. It turns out it's just a system tray app for properties on my wireless network; however, the spyware firm I found this out on recommends that I install a spyware checker and check over my disk. I have to say, this sounds like a bit of overkill to me; it's a perfectly legitamate application. That said, it does seem to involve giving them money... Hmm, I wonder if that could have anything to do with their advice.

Thanks for the clarification. Haven't used Windows regularly for a long time.

ffs "ntdll64.exe" needs to fucking die

superantispyware = <3

my god this one is a bastard

why is it that i can run a full adaware scan and a full spybot scan and get rid of everything, and then i log onto the internet, do some stuff (but i don't download any files) and then run another sbybot/scan and everything comes back up again? can you really get spyware simply by loading a webpage?

yes

man, that sucks. so after every fucking time i use the internet i have to spend an hour scanning for shit? fuck that. let them infect my pc.

So this Superantispyware program, can it replace the Ad-aware + Spybot tag team? Really want a single program as opposed to two programs always running in the background.

MSE and Malwarebytes

+ dont surf porn

The hell you say.

my shit is fucked up -- every google search result intially reroutes me to like yahoo hotjobs & other random shit -- ive never had virus/malware issues before & spybot isnt detecting anything halp

This?

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6132_102-0.html?threadID=374421

I still would like to know how you can get malware by loading a webpage.

malwarebytes to start
ad aware
make a hijack this log and search out weird processes
google them and you'll find a forum with a hundred ppl and the same problem, but somebody will have figured out what

Snrub its easy to get infected off a webpage if that page is serving up malicious code. You wont see it - in fact sometimes even the site owners dont know they're infected (someone else has hacked their site basically)

If you're using IE you're shit out of luck. Get something like Firefox and run NoScript.

(that wont fix an existing jack/trojan but it'll sure prevent future crap)

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/23566/?a=f

Drive-by downloading involves hacking into a legitimate site to covertly install malicious software on visitors' machines or redirect them to another site.

In an unpublished paper, researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara describe a four-month study in which they connected their servers to a collection of compromised computers known as the Mebroot botnet. Among their findings, the researchers discovered that, while the seedier sites on the Internet--those hosting porn and illegal downloads--were most effective at redirecting users to a malicious download site, business sites were more common among the compromised referrers.

"Once upon a time, you thought that if you did not browse porn, you would be safe," says Giovanni Vigna, a UCSB professor of computer science and one of the paper's authors. "But staying away from the seedy places on the Internet is no longer an assurance of staying safe."

http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2009/09/new-york-times-sunday-virus-adventure.html

argh some megaupload link on ILM has installed something on my machine that opens up a "User/Documents" window every 5 minutes WTF

Are subscription-based services (like McAfee Virus Scan) worth it?

Especially if I have already have a license for an older (i.e. from 2004/2005) AV?

Kaspersky seems pretty good.

Secrets, Schemes, and Lots of Guns: Inside John McAfee’s Heart of Darkness

Oh cool, I re-upped for two years last month lol

The U.S. government announced on Thursday that it is banning the sale of Kaspersky antivirus in the country, and is asking Americans who use the software to switch to a different provider.

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security said it imposed the “first of its kind” ban, arguing that Kaspersky threatens U.S. national security and users’ privacy because the company is based in Russia.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/20/us-bans-kaspersky-software-security-risk-russia