We’re not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy.
Right now I am doing a deep scan from A-Squared; a malware Trojan finder-(fighter) there are some new malware virus’ masquarading as spyware removers, widgets, gadgets and cookies that attempt to insert a global instruction in your boot sequence that will completely take over your computer, and hide as windows dll programs reinstalling themselves after removal. Norton does not recognize all of them -Lavasoft Adaware finds some; Spybot finds alot and has a registry protect wizard that prevents boot record tampering. Unhack me also finds and removes bad code in your boot record. It is difficult to know what is good and bad. Unfortunately-If there is code on your computer that triggers a reinfestation, you will have to go through the process again. FinJan was running in my IE browser but it got annoying (art had x boxes) as a webmaster it is hard for me to live with that- it kept IE clean. Trend micro has a free one too. I am going to try that. This can hide as a cookie. Some sites do not allow access unless your cookie acceptance is at a certain level. You have to be careful what programs you use to remove malware as they will disquise themselves as a spyware remover and take your money. A-Squared is doing a deep scan of my computer while spybot keeps the Registry changer at bay. Shut off my System Restore. Ran CCleaner and Partid will catch me on the next boot.
Detects and removes rootkits UnHackMe http://greatis.com/unhackme/
http://us.trendmicro.com/us/home/home-user/
A-Squared found all traces of the root kit (Re-installed itself) http://www.emsisoft.com/en/
CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/
Norton from Symantec
http://www.symantec.com/norton/support/index.jsp
Lavasoft adawarehttp://www.lavasoft.com/index.php
Spybot http://www.safer-networking.org/en/donations/index.html
I own a traffic exchange and use traffic exchanges everyday. I think while I was surfing, I got hit with a bad cookie. I have Pop-up prevention. There was a Firewall-Bypass malware that Spybot found. This came through Internet Explorer-I use Firefox, too. I will be monitoring my exchanges much more closely, and notify an owner when I get hit. It is hard to prevent an innocent from accepting code change on an approved page from a malware beast when it is part of an advertising banner. As an owner you can limit circulation to splash pages, but the idea is when you click on a banner or splash page that looks interesting, isn’t this the whole point of advertising in a traffic exchange? If no one dares click on your ads for fear of malware, there is no point in ads at all. So -you need alot more than Norton, if you are a heavy deep web user like me. I will not be constricted from enjoying the web, I will fight– for my right –to party. And I will publish my findings for other intrepid souls to use.
That is how the old school used the web. Ask Djorak. Ask Leo. (Leporte) God Bless you both.
My friend called me (way back when-DOS Woman, now I’m- AkaTheWebmaster.com
I also love Twitter and came acoss a Facebook tie-in. I like to try new things, so I joined this group. Facebook IM is having problems, I hear on the vine. I do not need any program that installs itself in my boot sequence and leaves holes for malware. I do not know if it is related. I will find out.
From 5am through 11:34am feel clean again–may have deleted some of my ok-regular programs, that is what backups are for. Assemble these first.
http://akathewebmaster.com/news.html More Stuff
http://rightontargethits.com/news.html Traffic Exchange (Mine)
http://solar-sisters.com/news.html (Metaphisto)
