Ad Aware was up to date, but not running the "Deep Scan". I doubt FF loaded anything (The FF lovers would be screaming), but I do download and experiment with a lot of software, and even though I try to be careful I know my limitations. Here's what I want to know: My customers are almost exclusively novices. Their computer use is limited to email and a few Office apps with limited general surfing. How in Hell are they supposed to stay protected? By the time I install Ad Aware, Spybot, Zone Alarm, etc. they feel (rightly) overwhelmed. The ones with children are even more vulnerable. I'm spending way too much time on these issues, and even those who do have a slight grasp of the issues are fed up. **************************************************************************** ********
I know the feeling. :-) I don't understand how there can be such a discrepancy in functionality on two different SP2 PC's. ?? I wonder if FF is what got that malware on your PC? This also doesn't make sense unless you haven't updated AdAware, because it should find all of those pieces of malware. Or, if you don't have AdAware checking all the areas that the M$ program checks. But remember what I said about the false positives in my first post. It also found Search Squire on my PC, but it was not malware. It was a registry tag in the registry under my "Restricted Sites" zones, and it was SUPPOSED to be there to keep SSquire from putting anything on my HD. Were these actual DLL's or executables it found, or just registry tags? If just reg tags, then I'd open up the restore area and investigate exactly where they were and see if they were originally under "Zones" in the registry. -Clint ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
