There was an article on Slashdot last week that recomended Webroot's Spy Sweeper. The article is here: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/14/2319210&tid=172&tid=109&tid=201
Phil. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Coulter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 7:59 AM Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Arial.ttf and system fonts removed and selfbootmodem dialup > Some of you may or may not have used Giant AntiSpyware. > Personally I have, and it bets the others hands down. Where you once (as > pointed outin an earier email) you used to have to use 2 or spy ware > programs to get all the spyware, Giant was all I ever needed. > I was about to actually purchase a subscription, WHEN, we received an > email at work with this URL :- > http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx > > Ok, so it's a Microsoft link....BUT when one delves deeper, you find > that M$ have brought the company that makes Giant AntiSpyware ! > Personally, I like this because now I don't have to pay a subscription, > and its still the app. I like to use :-) > > Jeremy > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Brennan > Sent: Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:59 > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - OfftopicList > Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Arial.ttf and system fonts removed and self > bootmodem dialup > > > Good luck. There are some truly brutal adware programs out there, > several of which I have met while trying to fix problems with customer > machines. Unfortunately it's not like viruses. With computer viruses if > you have one of the main virus scanners then you are pretty much immune. > Adware is much, much cleverer and most commercially available anti > adware software only manages to handle a subset of the contaminations - > even worse the adware they find are often just the spawn of the real > nasty adware program lurking invisibly behind the scenes. If this > happens to you then removing the main adware infection will probably > require serious research on the internet, use of tools like HijackThis, > booting to safe mode, disabling services (yes I have encountered adware > which had it's own service to reinstall itself if you managed to delete > it), manual deletion/quarantining of DLL and other files from the > Windows and Windows\System directories and general perseverence. > > Of course your experience may vary ;-). > > Cheers, > David. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Like Magic > > (Maurice > > Butler) > > Sent: Tuesday, 18 January 2005 6:50 PM > > To: Paul A Norman; NZ Borland Developers Group- Offtopic List > > Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Arial.ttf and system fonts removed and > self > > bootmodem dialup > > > > > > Hi, > > sound very much like adware or trogan etc - can be very hard to get > > rid of. "Adware Personal" is good http://www.lavasoft.de/ so is > > "Spybot-S&D" http://www.safer-networking.org > > > > note you will need both programs as they detect different problems > > > > Maurice > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul A Norman > > Sent: Tuesday, 18 January 2005 6:20 p.m. > > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List > > Subject: [DUG-Offtopic] Arial.ttf and system fonts removed and self > > boot modem dialup > > > > > > Here's someting I am wondering whether any one has ever encuntered, > > which doesn;t seem to be known on virus forums yet. > > > > A friend of mine who uses AVG asked me to come and look at his > > computer as some of his fints were disappearing. > > > > His Arial.ttf font was found in the recycling bin. > > > > He told me that around the date shown in the recyling bin for the font > > > having been deleted, the machine had appeared to turn its self on and > > dial out through the modem. > > > > Someting is blocking free use of the interent. > > > > He's AVG scanned the whole harddrive doing all files but nothing > > shows. > > > > I have run an AVG 7.0 virus check from safe mode dos prompt using the > > > rescue disks. Nothing was found. I had to do it from safe mode dos > > prompt as booting to dos on an A: drive disk does not recognise any > > NTFS partitions under Xp Home only FAT patitions. > > > > I am yet to download some other Spyware removal utilities as well. > > > > I have checked in that computer's recycle bin and other TTF fonts were > > > also there, deleted at the exact same time. > > > > They mostly appear to be fonts that come with Windwos Xp or are > > installed by Internet Explorer 6.0 > > > > I am convinced that no operator of the computer deleted these fonts. > > > > When trying to restore these fonts from the recycle bin, a message > > came up objecting to Dc362: being reinstalled. However I have checked > > the font on my own machine and it does not appear to have an internal > > name of Dc362: > > > > Has any one ever heard of anyting specific that would do this please? > > _______________________________________________ > > Offtopic mailing list > > [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Offtopic mailing list > > [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > > > > _______________________________________________ > Offtopic mailing list > [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > > > > _______________________________________________ > Offtopic mailing list > [email protected] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > > _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
