difficulty preventing adware
From: NeoSadist (neosad1st_at_charter.net)
Date: 09/29/04
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:18:32 +0000
To whom it may concern:
I've been having difficulty recently in preventing adware. First I tried
removing registry entries to the files then deleting those files. Didn't
work. Next I tried the same in safe mode, didn't work. Next I tried
spybot, didn't remove it. Then I found the entry in add/remove programs
and uninstalled it, still didn't remove it. Then I tried spybot as
Administrator while in safe mode, still didn't remove it.
If anyone knows how to remove adware, and/or how to prevent them from
installing, please let me know, as I have googled for hours and tried for
hours, and nothing works. Not even regedt32 hacking the user to nothing
but read permissions on all trees.
And honestly, I'm starting to wonder the following:
1) If user is restricted user, they cannot use most programs that they need
properly (as in Adobe and Flash stuff). This is those company's faults.
2) If the user is admin, programs still tend to cut corners and dodge the
rules to install without even asking. This is Windows' fault: if the OS
cannot protect itself even when a conscientious user is using it, the maker
of the OS is to blame.
3) I cannot figure out how to prevent files from installing, even after I've
gone into Security Policy and loaded the hisecws template (high security
workstation) and done other things.
4) Internet Explorer cannot be secured properly. A web server interrogates
browser version, and sensing IE loads things using ActiveX when called for.
Disabling ActiveX means nothing, as you can prevent a security hole, but
this means you can't use most sites, because the web server still senses
which browser is being used. Other browsers don't have this problem.
5) Setting security zones in IE is nice, but to be truly secure this means
you have to make the internet the highest security setting and add sites
you trust to trusted sites. I mean, this makes sense, because the internet
is essentially like a large LAN (it's a WAN) that you cannot trust at all,
but this makes the browsing experience difficult.
Please, someone let me know if there are any work-arounds other than not
using IE.
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