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10-06-2004, 09:46 AM | #2 |
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Well its about damn time, there arnt many thing I hate more about computers than Spyware. If there was anyone in the world I would like to meet, it would be the owner of GAIN, so I could punch him over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and so on.....
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10-06-2004, 09:48 AM | #3 |
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i wish they would do the same for the other countries. but thankfully most are based from the US so they can liable.
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10-06-2004, 10:30 AM | #4 | |
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10-06-2004, 11:04 AM | #5 |
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My sister-in-law calls me from work two days ago to ask for help cleaning addware/spyware out of her work PC (She said that she would get into trouble if she did not clean it out before the boss saw it).
It was called Bargains.exe or bargainbuddy.exe It was an ever-running series of pop-ups that would come up randomly at odd times. She was lucky to find me at home when she called. She picked it up while going to one of those sites where you can download screen-savers. [ 10-06-2004, 11:05 AM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]
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10-06-2004, 11:08 AM | #6 |
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Oh man, Ive had the "Bargain buddy" and Bargains.exe on my computer more times than ive played Solitaire...ok, well maybe not that much, but alot, and although it doesnt do all that much, any procceses running in my computer that shouldnt be must be destroyed!!1
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10-06-2004, 11:12 AM | #7 |
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Bargainbuddy paid me a little visit too, it's really hard to get rid of it. Adaware couldn't delete it, or if it did, Bargainbuddy would be back the same day. Must be one of those respawning trojans. Same thing with the Gatorcompany, one of the most annoying trojans i've ever encountered. It simply won't die. Or Fastclick, Doubleclick, and other such names, i'm sure most of you are familiar with those names.
Can't they pass a law that allows people to shoot at them ?
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10-06-2004, 11:19 AM | #8 |
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Gator has got to be the "Napster" of the spyware world. They were probably the first spyware in existance, since I remember having trouble with them before anybody even knew what spyware meant. I don't even know if spyware was even a word back in those days...which is not actually all that long ago...but to the tech world, it seems to be.
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10-06-2004, 01:51 PM | #9 |
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ahh.. gator with that sneaky fill form annoying monkey!! grrr..
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10-06-2004, 02:44 PM | #10 |
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I read microsoft is starting some anti-spyware project as well. But well I have to see it first to believe it
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