Spyware Has Been Eliminated Sir!
Mar. 5th, 2004 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2I finally got a reply from Spykiller... turns out I HAD typed my e-mail wrong (but who ever heard of "comast.net" as an isp?). Figures I'd do that the one time it was really important and they didn't have a double-entry to check your spelling. I suggested that they should.
But I got the key to the program and nuked my viruses. It still finds a "Cydoor" when I run it, but a search on their website said that this was just a remenant file and no longer dangerous (then why does their program keep finding it and saying it IS dangerous, I wonder?)
But overall it seems to have found and killed the parasite. I'm happy.
One other thing... when I go to their web site one of the links I click on always generates a pop-up ad of theirs. Google is supposed to kill all pop-ups -- it only allows one window per click -- but the Spykiller people apparently know how to get around that. It annoys me that a company in the spyware/adware/pop-up killer business is working so hard to allow their OWN pop-up ads to appear.
*EDIT* Nevermind... I am still getting random popup ads when I close my browser. #@$!@#$@!#$
But I got the key to the program and nuked my viruses. It still finds a "Cydoor" when I run it, but a search on their website said that this was just a remenant file and no longer dangerous (then why does their program keep finding it and saying it IS dangerous, I wonder?)
But overall it seems to have found and killed the parasite. I'm happy.
One other thing... when I go to their web site one of the links I click on always generates a pop-up ad of theirs. Google is supposed to kill all pop-ups -- it only allows one window per click -- but the Spykiller people apparently know how to get around that. It annoys me that a company in the spyware/adware/pop-up killer business is working so hard to allow their OWN pop-up ads to appear.
*EDIT* Nevermind... I am still getting random popup ads when I close my browser. #@$!@#$@!#$
