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hey zooligan - you wouldn't happen to be in Atlanta would you?

i would have to agree.


but around here it seems to be cyclical. all was quiet for 4 or 5 months, and then boom - i've spent much of the last week cleaning up spyware on my end-users machines.

hey guess what? I downloaded Ewido's security suite and ran it - it found a couple of false positives but also some other cookies that it found to be spyware. I then ran the latest version of...

actually i normally search directly from the yahoo page itself. so all of this is happening when i go to www.yahoo.com and start searching from there. or if i go to www.google.com and search from...

okay - so here's what i got....

i ran the APM on the local admin profile first, and got a bunch of dlls.

There were several that were not in common with the results from my personal profile.
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thanks zENGER! I'll get back to you in a bit.

so as an update - ran Microsoft's product and it found absolutely nothing on my machine - but the problem's still there.


One interesting thing i found was that it's specific to my profile on...

i'm also going to give Microsoft's program a go. Perhaps all those false positives will work in my favor.

i should prolly have mentioned this is a corporate machine - behind a firewall that's not acting up, faxsr notify is a legit program and i got sophos back up and running. for soem reason on my...

by phrases are you saying something like:

pw = My dog is a rat bastard!


we were tossing that around over here for a bit, but it turned otu to not be compatible with some of the other stuff we...

yeah those are all fine and supposed to be there. this is puzzling the heck out of me.


just finished the trendmicro scan too - no viruses, a couple of tracking cookies which i deleted but...

Hi zENGER - here's my HJT log - bear in mind i've already cleaned it as best i could:

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 3:48:28 PM, on 5/4/2005
Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600)...

Hi y'all - i hope someone can help me out with soemthing fishy that's been going on.

For the last couple of weeks (i think since I downloaded Java for Dell training) i've been having Browser...

*lol* how did data get so big? i'll blame it on bill.


in any case, i finally got this computer sorted. the bios update did the trick with getting the large hard drive recognized. then my...

you know this actually reminded me, in about 1993-94 i remember speaking with a coworker - she had told me her husband built PCs in the basement, and that he was working on this superfast new...

*lol* i still have a 486 sitting in my closet. all i ever used it for was surfing the net.


i'm embarassed to say i have no system of my own right now, but to be honest, after working all day...

a new motherboard and cpu for around a 100 bucks? seriously? everything i've priced comes in at 200~ish. and truth be told there's maybe 50 bucks left in the pot now. *lol* just enough for a nic...

hey foxey! it's ME.


i got the bigger harddrive, because, well she asked me to. Hee. actually the old drive is 4 gig and she needs to keep records. I was going to just have her save it all...

i will. i've been battling the flu for the last few days and i had cracked the case on her machine over the weekend as i was getting sick. i may have that totally wrong. hopefully if i'm feeling...

Hey cross - thanks for responding.

I can't answer most of your questions yet, except to say that the HD is on an IDE cable with the floppy. I must confess i didn't really pay much attention to...

Hey irongeek - i finally got to play with your tutorial a bit last week. it was great fun. I've bene trying to add osme custom stuff to my CD tho, and i'm coming up on some issues. here's...

hi y'all - i've got a bit of a problem.


My roommate has asked me to upgrade her PC with minimal fuss and expense and i've been working on it. She doesn't want to upgrade the mobo or the...

how do you know this guy's schedule enough to know when he's at work or not?


what's really going on here?

and why do you refuse to callt he FBI? don't they have a cybercrimes division these...

well let me play around this afternoon and see what i can come up with.


thanks for the tutorial.

irongeek - this is a very timely tutorial.

here's a question: say i've got an intern that has no admin passwords or admin rights to a machine, but i need him to be able to run spyware apps on pcs...