suggestions to spybot

blues said:
i thought you and terminator was the same person, because you both have a penguin picture.

Quite some stuff these days. In 2002, malicious software and drive-by-downloads were a joke!

in 2003 i dont think the windows firewall and microsoft updates was on by default, and i was going to warez sites and other bad sites and got lots of malware and a dialer, i finally got rid of the dialer and i went crazy and deleted all parts of the dialer i found, i was deleting it manually, but i dont recommend anybody deleting what they think are the malware manually because it may be files needed by the operating system.

i use antivir, and has stopped using avg because of linkscanner or what it is called, because it slowed down my google searches.

i dont trust superantispyware, but maybe without a reason and is not using it, spybot seems it is made from the heart (it is good i mean) and not for making money, i have thought about donating to spybot but i am not sure how i do it.

i had kazaa and didnt now it had included malware, but i saw something kalled gain on my computer wich was gator, and then someone downloaded ad-aware on my computer and it found lots of malware, then i visited a site called spywareinfo and learned a lot about malware from there, and there i found spybot and spywareblaster i think. and learned about the hostsfile from other sites, and in this year 2008 i think, i joined my first security forum and that was hphosts forum and made a thread there about spybot and the hostsfile. it is here if someone is interested: http://forum.hosts-file.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=430

is revo a point to have for people when not installing and uninstalling software all the time? i see it has other features too.

other firewalls than windows firewall is annoying i think, and windows firewall has never let anything in on my computer, but it lets everything go out.
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Well I have to agree, because AVG's LinkScanner does take some time to scan. I personally use McAfee SiteAdvisor 26.6.
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blues, Terminator and drragostea are the same person. I use the Tahoma font.
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blues, malware is not installed onto your computer just like that. It's user decision. Sometimes careless mistakes are responsible. Keygens and cracks, I'm sure it's 100% infested with trojans.

Trust me I know. I've purposely attempted to infect my computer, because I've never had a infection before. (I planned to reformat anyways). I downloaded AVG 8.0 IS with firewall. AVG warned me of a "IRCBot".

Really, you got to know how to distinguish some stuff. A zipped movie, say like Simpsons: The Movie, for only 133 kbs? Com'on think about it.

Actually, I do like SAS. I would say it's pretty strong. I hated it one time, but after removing SmitFraud on my aunt's badly infected computer, no more pop-ups. I was like O.O. I'm not recommending it, just a review.

Window's default built-in firewall wouldn't be that strong. I would say it's average, compared to a piece of paper. Anything could get through. Not anything. :P I use Comodo Pro, despite the countless pop-ups it's given me. Comodo Pro aced the leak tests ^_^.

Kazaa is bundled with malware.

I use REVO UNINSTALLER because the default Add/Remove Programs window leaves stuff behind.
 
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i dont understand, i feel stupid. but i wont bother you with it anymore:)

you both joined at different times, and is active on same days sometimes:scratch:

a font is some sort of script looks i think, but i dont know.

sorry for my misspellings, i am Norwegian
 
drragostea: malware can be automatically installed on the computer just by visiting malicious sites, in 2003 when i got lots of malware , i wasnt getting questions about if i want to install something from the websites, it was automatically installed without me knowing it, and i wasnt doing anything, i am not talking about the malware i got from kazaa now.

i will just say NEVER download software from filsharing sites/networks almost everything i have downloaded includes malware, but most are trojans, i have almost never seen viruses but they could be hidden from the antiviruses, i dont know. most of the trojans where found using antivir, avg and avast and a-squared was detecting more trojans than the other antispywares, but they may be false positives. it wasnt so easy to test the files and cds with pirated software and keygens with spybot because it cant scan cds and dvds, and it didnt scan the download folder from utorrent, i dont know why, maybe spybot doesnt scan everything, and it doesnt have rightclick scan.
 
Alright, blues to first answer your questions.
Terminator and I use different avatars. This means icons for our profiles. We can't be the same person if you joined at different dates and have different signatures can we?

The above is Tahoma font. This font is the font used by Terminator. See?
The above is Tahoma font. This font is the font used by Terminator. See?

Why the heck were you testing crack and pirated CD's? You know, technically it's illegal to be using or distributing pirated or cracked versions (of anything).

P2P and file sharing is definitely a NOT must.
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It's a 100% (make the 110%) guarantee that any crack or keygen is infested with malware. I used to say: "You don't get free stuff by not doing anything".

Well of course, Kaspersky's $39.00 (USD) Internet Security Suites are not there to download for free. Of course there's a price.
 
drragostea said:
Alright, blues to first answer your questions.
Terminator and I use different avatars. This means icons for our profiles. We can't be the same person if you joined at different dates and have different signatures can we?

The above is Tahoma font. This font is the font used by Terminator. See?
The above is Tahoma font. This font is the font used by Terminator. See?

Why the heck were you testing crack and pirated CD's? You know, technically it's illegal to be using or distributing pirated or cracked versions (of anything).

P2P and file sharing is definitely a NOT must.
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It's a 100% (make the 110%) guarantee that any crack or keygen is infested with malware. I used to say: "You don't get free stuff by not doing anything".

Well of course, Kaspersky's $39.00 (USD) Internet Security Suites are not there to download for free. Of course there's a price.
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I couldn't have put it better myself:laugh:.
 
Sci-Fi series? I knew it x].

I thought it was something like the codenames that NASA gives unknown planets. Such as Pegasi-52.
 
i tested patched software, cracks and keygens for fun, i wanted to see what security software found the most malware, is a test illegal? i think not.
 
Yea, I used to do that once. To see how AVG responded and how the stuff worked. I never said it was illegal to test it. But to distribute it.
 
antiviruses also detect pirated software even when they are malware free, just because it is illegal. however that is not what antiviruses should do, they are not antipiracysoftware. not all software on filesharing networks is infected, but i would not recommend anyone to use it anyway. the worst of all to download is software packs with 30 or even hundreds of software, thats my experience when testing. maybe something is not infected, but it may cause unenspected behaviour on the computer.

maybe i was doing something illegal, because when downloading torrents you are sharing the parts you get from other people before you have finished the download.:oops:
 
There were some problems with users accidentally putting their "My Documents" into the Sharing Folders. Then there were some cases of identity theft.

I'm not so sure if AV's are anti-piracy softwares. However, I do believe it is right to detect pirated software. User's shouldn't even have it in the first place. In some cases the software does work, take Adobe Photoshop for instance, but it comes with a price.

No AV or AS (anti-spyware) is invincible.
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its the opposite to me the shared folder is in my documents.

so do you have downloaded a adobe photoshop that works? it sounds you are doing something you shouldnt :police: :laugh: not every downloadable photoshop works, but i have not downloaded it so i dont know, its a guess.

i have that xp edition too:) i am just kidding.
 
blues said:
its the opposite to me the shared folder is in my documents.

so do you have downloaded a adobe photoshop that works? it sounds you are doing something you shouldnt :police: :laugh: not every downloadable photoshop works, but i have not downloaded it so i dont know, its a guess.

i have that xp edition too:) i am just kidding.
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First of all blues let me make this clear. I have never executed any pirated or cracked software and I never will. What I said about Adobe Photoshop was just merely a guess. I don't really have any use for it. I don't plan to purchase it because it's too expensive.
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:P Pirated Edition. Haha. It's just a modified boot screen made from painting tools. It's not real.

Though I've heard this edition called Windows XP "Black Edition". DON'T TRY it. I wouldn't suggest Googling it either. It's a illegal bunch of cracked software bundled into one.
 
i downloaded some of the xp black editions just to test if i found malware on it, and many of the bundled software was infected. sadly, it wasnt possible to test the cds/dvds with spybot, it would have been fun to test spybot too to see what malware it found. i dont have the cds/dvds now. i dont understand why they put a lot of work on making such modified xp editions, and then put in malware afterwards.

great if spybot would have right click scanning and was able to scan all drives like the dvd drives, i will put that in the suggestions forum.

it is not great to download one software from a single person you trust either, i mean from torrent sites, because they have possibly downloaded them from dangerous warez sites.
 
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I think Spybot-SD 1.6 integrates the "right-click" scanning. Like scanning individual files.

Why create a modified version? Simple. Answer is to attract unaware user so the malware can be installed. This "commonly" turns the user's computer into a "zombie". If not, it plagues the user with a backdoor possibly or use the compromised PC's bandwidth and redirect it's traffic to a malicious server so all bits of data is transmitted to the malware creator first.

Some users might ask why not write viruses and malware for Mac? In my perspective, the Windows OS is most commonly used. Like used by a majority of netizens. In addition, the Windows OS is so-called the "easiest" to study and learn and it also has its vulnerabilities.

blues clues ;D
 
I think Spybot-SD 1.6 integrates the "right-click" scanning. Like scanning individual files

thanks for telling:)

spybot is the funniest antispyware to use, because of the tools, but it havent found any malware yet in my computer in the last years but some years ago if i remember right it found some malware, but i dont remember it exactly.

but it found a trojan that according to the description causes bufferowerflows, and maybe some more, this was in 2007 or 2008 i think. i dont remember exactly what antimalware software i used, but i think it was this ones: spybot, a-squared, spywareterminator, ad-aware, malwarebytesantimalware, superantispyware, and the antiviruses antivir, avg, and avast. i think almost everyone of them found something the others didnt. spybot was the only one that found the bufferowerflow trojan. all this was in the test, it was in a folder with cracks, pirated software and patches. it seemed that the antiviruses detected more trojans than the antimalwares. but maybe some of the detections are false positives, i dont have the knowledge to know. some of them detected the same as the others.

i dont know how many antimalware i need, but everyone detect some that the others dont detect. it is a pain to have several antimalwares because it will take a hole day to scan with everyone of them. i search through the computer every sunday and updates all my other software then.
 
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How the heck is Spybot-SD the "funniest" anti-spyware program you used?

Spybot does not scan for viruses. It scans for spyware, malware, trojans, bots, worms, and some rookits. I believe AV's scan for viruses and trojans. However, some AV's these days include rookit and spyware scanning.

I really don't think you need all those tools. MalwareBye's AM, is only used for infected computers. In my opinion, this goes for SAS too. I find SAS quite useful because I was surprised (in a good way) that it purged SmitFraud from my aunt's PC. However, the updates seem to be slowing down a bit.

If testing cracked software was fun, then we wouldn't have any firewalls and AV's. Just jk.

I just browsed through some torrent site. I wasn't downloading though, just to see what people were downloading.

*Sigh. What made be laugh was people downloading a cracked version of Adobe Reader 9 Pro + Keygen.

I'm sure those keygens never work. Though I never tried one.

:laugh: I plan to when I've backed up all by data and plan to reformat.
 
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