kramer5150
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oh my GAWD I hate spyware/popups... help!
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kramer5150
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kramer5150
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Follow this thread!! It saved my desktop PC.
I use a combination of spybot and hijack this with firefox.
STAY AWAY from MS IE!!! I use firefox, netscape and then if I really need to I use IE. Every time I use IE I run hijack this and always find a couple suspicious looking things. Minimal problems with netscape and even less with firefox.
Garrett
| Originally Posted by Edwood http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=128316 Hijackthis, rocks. 
-Ed |
Follow this thread!! It saved my desktop PC.
I use a combination of spybot and hijack this with firefox.
STAY AWAY from MS IE!!! I use firefox, netscape and then if I really need to I use IE. Every time I use IE I run hijack this and always find a couple suspicious looking things. Minimal problems with netscape and even less with firefox.
Garrett
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yet another triple post
with these database errors everyone will be a headphoneus supremus in no-time
with these database errors everyone will be a headphoneus supremus in no-time
ChickenScrtchBoy
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Linux.
It's like having a Mac without owning one.
Oh yeah, free software (almost all linux apps are freeware.)
and no fruity macosness suckage.
It's like having a Mac without owning one.
Oh yeah, free software (almost all linux apps are freeware.)
and no fruity macosness suckage.
mr.karmalicious
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Off a fresh install of Windows, here's what I use... no popups, no viruses, no ads, nothing at all...
Windows Corporate Edition SP2
Mozilla Firefox 1.5
BitDefender PRO
Just got MS Antispyware... it found nothing.
This is over an encrypted wireless network...
Windows Corporate Edition SP2
Mozilla Firefox 1.5
BitDefender PRO
Just got MS Antispyware... it found nothing.
This is over an encrypted wireless network...
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We're on the cusp of a system upgrade, so soon, it will be all gravy.
Gravy, I tell you, gravy!
-Ed
| Originally Posted by smeerkaas yet another triple post with these database errors everyone will be a headphoneus supremus in no-time |
We're on the cusp of a system upgrade, so soon, it will be all gravy.
Gravy, I tell you, gravy!
-Ed
mr.karmalicious
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Off a fresh install of Windows, here's what I use... no popups, no viruses, no ads, nothing at all...
Windows Corporate Edition SP2
Mozilla Firefox 1.5
BitDefender PRO
Just got MS Antispyware... it found nothing.
This is over an encrypted wireless network...
Windows Corporate Edition SP2
Mozilla Firefox 1.5
BitDefender PRO
Just got MS Antispyware... it found nothing.
This is over an encrypted wireless network...
mr.karmalicious
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Off a fresh install of Windows, here's what I use... no popups, no viruses, no ads, nothing at all...
Windows Corporate Edition SP2
Mozilla Firefox 1.5
BitDefender PRO
Just got MS Antispyware... it found nothing.
This is over an encrypted wireless network...
Windows Corporate Edition SP2
Mozilla Firefox 1.5
BitDefender PRO
Just got MS Antispyware... it found nothing.
This is over an encrypted wireless network...
gshan
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I just added a Firefox extension from their website from one of the top 5's, and it's supposed to block these newer flash based ads. Hoping it works!
Also tried the microsoft scan and trendware scan...both found new things! There are a bunch of these free scanners out there now, I don't think it's worth paying for anti-virus that won't catch everything in the first place.
update: my firefox was using 200mb memory earlier with just 4 windows open...I think the 4 extensions I installed are bogging me down?
Time to uninstall...
| Originally Posted by stevesurf This is so true - what is happening is so many ads now have the Flash overlay ads and more people than ever are accidently accepting the ad in an effort to get around it. The trick with these is to not permit Flash to run automatically and also use Adwatch (the real-time pop-up/tracking cookie blocker) running in the background. |
I just added a Firefox extension from their website from one of the top 5's, and it's supposed to block these newer flash based ads. Hoping it works!
Also tried the microsoft scan and trendware scan...both found new things! There are a bunch of these free scanners out there now, I don't think it's worth paying for anti-virus that won't catch everything in the first place.
update: my firefox was using 200mb memory earlier with just 4 windows open...I think the 4 extensions I installed are bogging me down?
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We're on the cusp of a system upgrade, so soon, it will be all gravy.
Gravy, I tell you, gravy!
-Ed
| Originally Posted by smeerkaas yet another triple post with these database errors everyone will be a headphoneus supremus in no-time |
We're on the cusp of a system upgrade, so soon, it will be all gravy.
Gravy, I tell you, gravy!
-Ed
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