Spyware problem help pls

4 Jan 2006

Hi Guys n Gals, Ive had a little prob with my browser freezing so I did a spyware scan and found huuuuuuge ammounts in the 'High Threat level' not knowing too much about the subject it tried to find out where it was all coming from and every time I visited this site I pick up a worrying level of these things last time 17 high 5 med and this was the only site I visited ....The browser is ok now Ive cleaned all the spyware off , but just wanted to know if this is normal or should I be worried.......Thanx Steph x

4 Jan 2006

Download MS antispyware, then scan/remove

4 Jan 2006

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4 Jan 2006

load beta1 on microsoft home page its free and lets nowt onto yr pc.

4 Jan 2006

Quote by Dave4kelly
Thats very scary Steph dont you have any anti spyware on your machine? Theres loads of free ones around.

thnx Dave4kelly
I have maxsecure spyware detect loaded latest version updates daily but the stuff is still getting thro

4 Jan 2006

Quote by glenf
Download MS antispyware, then scan/remove

I use this +Sophos + spyware stuff and my PC is as clean as a whistle. MS stuff has never found a virus, neither has Sophos and last spyware scan got me a big green tick! Firewall tighter than a duck's arse
Think you're getting them elsewhere.

4 Jan 2006

steph if yr stuck pm me will talk u through it on the phone

4 Jan 2006

There's no spyware on here although I've read in other threads about some of the external emoticon links fetching cookies from elsewhere.

4 Jan 2006

If you use Firefox as a browser instead of IE it's much safer. Microsoft is due to release a new browser soon because so many users are moving away... IE is okay in shallow water, ie the sites that well regulated but if you're going for mp3/ringtones/smut then go for Firefox or Opera... A nice free program to clean your cache is:
hxxp://

4 Jan 2006

There's no spyware on here although I've read in other threads about some of the external emoticon links fetching cookies from elsewhere.

Think you're getting them elsewhere.

Thankx for the advise and I do sincerly apologise for the inferrance that the orogin of these things was sh, it truly was not intended to read that way , but my knowledge of these things is nil and I was just after some advise on how to murder the beasties really, and as I am reletivly new to the forum (not sh however) I shall be a little more carefull how I phrase my requests in future...promise
Raider thanx for the offer if I get in S*** I'll scream
Thanks all for the help.......Steph x

4 Jan 2006

I was avoiding a hotlink. Sorry is this okay here ? It's not on many forums..

4 Jan 2006

I would get these pieces of software
Spyware doctor you need to get this off teh american spyware doctor site as you will have to pay for any other version.
Spybot, ad-aware and ms antispyware...all these can be
Hope you get rid of the pests

4 Jan 2006

Quote by macdern
I would get these pieces of software
Spyware doctor you need to get this off teh american spyware doctor site as you will have to pay for any other version.
Spybot, ad-aware and ms antispyware...all these can be
Hope you get rid of the pests

Or how about using the Advice section to your left and reading
http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/advice/online-security.html
rolleyes

5 Jan 2006

Quote by Jags
I would get these pieces of software
Spyware doctor you need to get this off teh american spyware doctor site as you will have to pay for any other version.
Spybot, ad-aware and ms antispyware...all these can be
Hope you get rid of the pests

Or how about using the Advice section to your left and reading
http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/advice/online-security.html
rolleyes

In a nutshell! lol

:lol:
Eeeeeeek! Jags.:scared: :scared: :scared:
bolt

5 Jan 2006

Quote by Jags
I use this +Sophos + spyware stuff and my PC is as clean as a whistle. MS stuff has never found a virus, neither has Sophos and last spyware scan got me a big green tick! Firewall tighter than a duck's arse.

Did you read the Times & CNN today? Scary stuff about new code being circulated amongst virus writers, which can embed a virus into a JPG file, so that it infects your PC as soon as you view the image on a web page!
No good crying "Get Firefox" either, that's just as vulnerable to the problem. (Getting a Linux box or an Apple Mac might be safer though)
Microsoft are testing a patch which will be releaased in about a week if tests prove successful, but now that the first media-file-borne virus transmission method has been discovered, others (e.g. in MP3's) may well follow.

5 Jan 2006

"Download MS antispyware, then scan/remove" microsoft anti spyware is worthless now they have bought gator. the biggest spyware maker of them all.....since that happened a ms scan doesnt see gator as a threat anymore........ switch to linux and you dont have the worry

5 Jan 2006

don't use m$ stuff its generally pretty poor, spybot search and destroy is one of the best and ad-aware is pretty good. As others have said use firefox and it should prevent alot of problems and use a decent firewall (not the windows standard one) and get a decent virus checker, housecall is free (I think) or avg or avast. Lots of really good free stuff out there if you look around and check 1st

5 Jan 2006

Quote by EagerSlut
I would get these pieces of software
Spyware doctor you need to get this off teh american spyware doctor site as you will have to pay for any other version.
Spybot, ad-aware and ms antispyware...all these can be
Hope you get rid of the pests

Or how about using the Advice section to your left and reading
http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/advice/online-security.html
rolleyes

In a nutshell! lol

:lol:
Eeeeeeek! Jags.:scared: :scared: :scared:
bolt

No... sweet young innocent - just got very long claws!
wink

:wink:

5 Jan 2006

Also remember not all spyware is bad. Adware also shows up things like doubleclick which is used for pop upsa and advertising ,, so even if you clean they will often come back
Dave