sort of OT... Computer Viruses and worse....

Mr Fawlty,

If its free, how would you make money from it.

Now that you have cleaned up the spyware, how to prevent it reinfecting? Does spyware terminator provide an ongoing protection against future spyware attacks? If not, consider programs such as the free Adaware and/or Spybot.
Do you have a firewall which warns you of attempts to infiltrate your computer, or of data being sent out to sites you have not okayed.
Kerio Free Personal Firewall is one with a good reputation. Once you have set up a firewall and given permission for all the sites you usually visit and exchange data with (email, online banking etc) you can forget it and only hear from it if you are installing new software (when it checks with you whether changes being made are OK). Or of course if an unauthorised attempt on your computer's integrity is made.
When I first installed mine, I was surprised to be asked if it was OK for my computer to send data to Microsoft when I opened Media Player or Microsoft Word. Why should Bill Gates know what music I prefer? And what did he do with this info?
If you inadvertently block something that prevents a program running you can undo it in settings, or reset everything and start again.

Beware some of those spyware programs are spyware themselves and phone home occasionally. Use these two and you wont have any trouble Spypot search and destroy
Adaware 6
Get them here
http://www.download.com/3405-8022-5153545.html


http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html


Any site especially one you download stuff from has the potential to drop nasties on your computer. Its not the site its the stuff on it that causes the trouble. Pm me with the site name and I will look at it for you. I d/load stuff all the time and havent had a virus or spyware for years Use both the above and Nortons 2007 antivirus

Avg Free is worth exactly what u pay for it


Read several reviews on Spyware Terminator here and not all good by a long way Apparently it can also delete stuff it finds as spyware which isnt and u may find things dont work after you have done a clean and delete

have just spent the last few days getting the comp cleaned up. Was running Norton antivirus, didn't seem to dfo to much, I did a scan using another program and found a total of just under 4000 infected files all from Trojans and spyware and key loggers. Buggered if I can understand how they all got on here with up to date anti virus etc.
I went and bought the 2008 trend Micro and she did the trick. Had to scan quite a few times obviously. Then I was talking to a friend the other day and she had the exact same problems and stuff as me only from the keyloggers they managed to take $6000 out of their bank account. (that is why I never leave money in the bank, cause if it isn't someone who has hacked through your computer it is the bank themselves that flog your money)
She also bought the same program I did and told me that if you have Trend Micro you can go to their website and they have a program that is free called housecall and it scans your computer also. It picked up another 3 of spyware. You might have to have a Registered version of Trend for the housecall to scan though?

Cheers
Jo

I use vet for antivrus and for spayware free AVG antispyware which can be updated and free SpySweeper with patch for updating
I loaded AVG after son dowloaded a trojan...vundo and smitfraud....nasty ones..... went to major geek site and followed instructions which got rid of them..........on both occasions....bloody kids!

they AVG and Spysweeper seem to work great

I always do a scan in safe mode every couple of weeks or so..

Just downloaded and used spywaretrerminator and now my outlook express no longer works. Doesn't do or say anything just doesn't work. HELP
Geoff

This is something I don't compromise on.

Was using Vet Anti-virus and firewall on on PC and AVG freeware on the Laptop, which was OK. I also ran a freeware Firewall program on the Laptop.
I received a renewal notice and upgrade offer from Computer Associates (Vet) for a full Internet Security Suite which was less than the cost of a single user licence alone and came with a three user licence.

Includes Anti-virus, Firewall, Spyware detector and a Spam filter to give full protection from those nasties circulating the net.

I was a bit surprised at the spyware it recommended to delete that was resident on both machines.

I used to run Spybot on occasions but found it interferred with the settings I had previously configured.