Spyware

A good thread Negative.

spyware is not just found on inet browsing, some applications have it inside themselves, often described as an auto-update feature. Thought I would warn everyone about that.


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I personally use Ad-Aware to detect and delete spyware on my computer and it works pretty well for me.

Hehe, I can see some people don't read much on the Antivirus side. Anyways, here's some more helpful links for those who need help in the spyware area:

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=157452

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=150752

Both of those include various information about 3rd party software, spyware, ads/banners, and LavasoftUSA's kickass Ad-Aware (worth buying).

Nice posts, Vorlin, but it's not LavasoftUSA's Ad-Aware ;)
It's LavasoftDE's Ad-Aware... LavaSoft is a German company ;)

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Originally posted here by Negative
Nice posts, Vorlin, but it's not LavasoftUSA's Ad-Aware ;)
It's LavasoftDE's Ad-Aware... LavaSoft is a German company ;)

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Hehe Negative, if you'll check the url for the posts, you'll see it goes to www.lavasoftusa.com.
That is home to *THE* Ad-Aware 5.62 (final release so far) along with RefUpdate 1.3. There's a lavasoft.com that has other software and games, but I don't think they're affiliated.

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Originally posted here by Negative

It's LavasoftDE's Ad-Aware... LavaSoft is a German company ;)

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Ah, the Germans. They've given us The Volkswagon, The Holocaust and Spyware removal tools......



I'm joking people......joking!

Hehe Vorlin, I knew you were going to say that ;)

Check out www.ministryofnegativism.tk ... It's my site, but I don't live in Tokelau, if you know what I mean :p

Check out all the contact-, and support-adresses for Lavasoft... all .de's
A German company....

my firewall picked up Onflow, Ezula and Webhancer few months ago and yeah.. i denied it to access the internet PEMANENTLY the moment my firewall spotted it, and ive been wondering what they are.. so thanks to your post i finally know that they are spywares.. hehe.. i had the hunch though.

i´d like to know if all the spyware is removes with one of those scanners like Nitrous. does it affect the software wich it came with? for example: i installed kazaa media desktop. with it came webhancer. if i remove webhancer will it affect kazaa??? please help.

SpyChaser is a pretty extensive database of spyware. You can find it at:

http://camtech2000.net/Pages/SpyChaser.html

Cheers,

BrainStop