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[Anwar]

Unfoftunately there are some websites which use an active control right but I saw this

Run your sitebar in many websites I first installed it and bring more like powerscan when you remove it it says That it can detect porn well actually when I scan I got mad it's a spyware!


But the sitebar is an toolbar which doesn't give you any information at all it can search plus the toolbars wont give you a link to!

[rridgely]

Are you having problems with spyware? Do you need some help?

Download this and choose "scan and save log file". Then post the log.
http://www.majorgeek...wnload3155.html

[Anwar]

Thanks a lot I just bring this topic to warn people some websites any way I have an anti-spyware thanks just post some websites which have spyware okay

Have anyone heard about errorguard I will warn you it's a high risk spyware and post some websites which has spyware okay?

[Inu-Ya]

Anwar, on Nov 17 2005, 04:34 AM, said:

Thanks a lot I just bring this topic to warn people some websites any way I have an anti-spyware thanks just post some websites which have spyware okay 

Have anyone heard about errorguard I will warn you it's a high risk spyware  and post some websites which has spyware okay?

I know of a few that relate to spyware. "I will not give links"

www.boyis.com - To my time on there It was a Anime wallpaper site. but soon, I found it contained some Spyware that could harm your computer.

Any searches you do in Google.com "Be Aware" Some links may redirect you towards a site that may contain major High Risk spyware. "Happen to me awhile back and I got pissed"

I know others but www.boyis.com is just a site that my little brother went on. I've blocked that site but now hes not into that crap anymore

[Anwar]

Does anyone believes this anti-spyware like Spybot S&D AND Mcafee says that MyWebSearch toolbar like the ad you see in some sites for example smiley central and cursormania when I use I.E at Smiley Central there was no yellow bar at all is MyWebSearch really is a spyware or not???

[Andavari]

MyWebSearch is under the PUPS category in Spybot S&D. Don't ask me what PUPS is I have no ideal, and a Google search won't help unless you're looking for a dog or cat.

[Anwar]

Is it true that Acoona toolbar is spyware I am having headach!

[hazelnut]

Andavari, on Nov 28 2005, 05:47 PM, said:

MyWebSearch is under the PUPS category in Spybot S&D. Don't ask me what PUPS is I have no ideal, and a Google search won't help unless you're looking for a dog or cat.

As far as I can make out, items listed under PUPS means they are not selected to be fixed automatically after the scan is done. This means the user decides himself whether he wants to delete them or not.
I think Acoona comes under this heading.

[Eldmannen]

Stay away from all toolbars.

Dont install anything you dont explicitly trust.

[MaKaVeLi]

MyWebSearch can go either way. It comes already installed on Dell computers and is hard to remove. In other times I've seen it installed in spyware installations, exploits, etc. I would label it as spyware.

[kobrakommander56]

Dell has mywebsearch already installed, wow, WHY?

[MaKaVeLi]

Some info about it:

http://www.thundercl...harmer-rant.htm

[kobrakommander56]

ridiculous.. i wonder if any law firms are filing a civil suit.

[grabacontroller]

Compaq has pre-installed Backweb Lite, Wild Tangent, and Weather Bug.

[gunner]

From Google:

Latest security acronym just a young PUP
Already drowning in a sea of security acronyms? Make way for one more. Security vendors are now throwing around the term "PUP" or potentially unwanted programs -- looks like it's meant to be a more politically correct way of labeling applications many of us would classify as spyware. In a quarterly report released Monday, McAfee's AVERT said PUPs were nuisance programs -- though not malicious -- that users requested be removed from their systems. The company identified such programs as: Adware-BB, Adware-DFC, Adware-Gator, Adware-Rblast, Adware-180 SearchAssist, Adware-Searchcentrix, Downloader-KL, Downloader-UI and IPSentry. McAfee said that programs such as Downloader-KL and Downloader-UL were created by someone other than the adware vendor and are both "part of a trend whereby individuals are misusing adware to generate revenue for themselves at the expense of the adware vendor or the advertisers that ultimately fund the adware vendor." An interesting distinction

[Anwar]

How many total spyware are today?

[rridgely]

Anwar, on Dec 7 2005, 08:10 PM, said:

How many total spyware are today?

More than you could count.

[Anwar]

Let me guess more than 10,000+ MALWARE!

[kobrakommander56]

i'd say a lot more.

[Anwar]

So you know 105,000+ did I overload?