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ed
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:43 am Post subject: korean spybots |
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I have adspider installed and it keeps popping up and telling me to remove the same 7 bugs over and over again then it tries to change my home page to redbug.co.kr.
what to do about this? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 10:02 am Post subject: |
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I don't know, but my wife keeps going to a Korean website (probably the on-line go-stop one or one of the streaming music ones) which keeps on stealthily installing a 'My Keyword' on the computer, in spite of the fact that I'm running a router (firmware) firewall, a software firewall, Norton a/v (or AVG depending on which pc she uses), and Spybot's Auto-immunize all turned on. It uninstalls easily enough but it keeps coming back every so often (my wife is a go-stop/k-pop addict, so avoiding the sites is not an option).
I've just told Zone Alarm (the software firewall) to never let it transmit and now I just ignore it, but I would love to get rid of it once and for all... |
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Gregarious Monk
Joined: 13 Sep 2004
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:32 pm Post subject: Spybot Tea-timer |
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| Doesn't the Spybot Tea-timer application catch the installation of the bug? You can check a box to have it remember whether or not to let it get installed. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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I should have mentioned I'm not using the latest version of Spybot (i.e. I have the auto-immunize, but I don't have the tea-timer functionality) as I heard stories of compatibility issues with it and various programs...
DU'OH!
...perhaps this is the impetus that will see me switching over to the latest version. |
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Gollum
Joined: 04 Sep 2003
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I've got some "No hong... cage" thing popping up at work which drives me nuts. |
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ed
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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well, I uninstalled ad spider then installed Ad Aware's Ad Watch and Spysweeper.
hopefully that works.  |
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The King of Kwangju
Joined: 10 Feb 2003
Location: New York City
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| Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
| It uninstalls easily enough but it keeps coming back every so often. |
Using ie, perhaps? Sounds like an Active x thing. Have you tried turning off active x, or using Firefox? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:59 am Post subject: |
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Okay, I've gone up to Spybot 1.3.
Downloaded Firefox donkey's ages ago and never got around to trying it out but that will change forthwith.
I should have noted that of my two computers spyware showed up on the XP machine and not the W2Kpro one... |
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
Downloaded Firefox donkey's ages ago and never got around to trying it out but that will change forthwith.
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Then I recommend uninstalling that version and getting a fresh one from their website. They create new builds fairly quickly and there was a security patch on a pretty recent version that you should have... |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| Will do- thanks. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:18 am Post subject: |
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>. The main reason i no longer have a home-based connexion.
If somebody ( or Matrix-styled BOT program  ) REALLY wants to spy on me, record my keystrokes & clicks of the mouse, they can do it from here: a PC Bang.
Think "Thought" Crime. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 3:54 am Post subject: |
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| igotthisguitar wrote: |
>. The main reason i no longer have a home-based connexion.
If somebody ( or Matrix-styled BOT program ) REALLY wants to spy on me, record my keystrokes & clicks of the mouse, they can do it from here: a PC Bang.
Think "Thought" Crime. |
I think it is much more likely to have security problems with a BC Bang computer. Didn't your mother ever tell you not to trust the computers of strangers?  |
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