Re: How do I get rid of this annoying site?

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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:09:13 -0800

Hi Shenan, Let me complement you on your intelligent discourse with me. I
appreciate your feedback and value your experience. Is that your real e-mail
box as I would like to establish communication with you outside of the
newsgroups.

Anyhow, keeping your temporary internet files is very important as you can
tell by looking them over if you have been hijacked to other websites while
you thought the whole time you were on the website you were visiting at the
time. Plus you can learn so much from your temporary internet files. There
are different places you can go to look at them where there are some
differences. Also what is important is to do an antivirus scan before machine
is restarted.

Are you familiar with atdmt? They have a website for you to learn who they
are and what they do? www.atdmt.com [Very intrusive company] Excuse the
expression , eat their cookie and you will regret it. Tracking cookies are
not temporary they follow you around the internet where you go and invade
your privacy that is why I called them a form of spyware.

Unfortunately I have found Ad Aware completely useless as it just found
tracking cookies which I know about from experience anyway and the MRU. I had
some nasty adware on my system and it could not detect it. I just removed it
myself after repeated attempts at trying to use scanners of all kinds to find
it.

Shenan, you know why spyware is such a headache is that there are hybrids
out there that are malicious to a single system , LANS and WANS. Let me
declare that a RAT acts like spyware , a trojan depending on what kind does
too and a worm also.
So the problem is catastrophic because then there are singularities out
there as well and your computer or networks may have severe difficulty in
discerning what is transpiring with the system(s). Ultimately computer
security antivirus companies are going to be the ones that have the expertise
to deal with this in the future even though right now they are way behind.
One other thing I mentioned is that you can't remove some of them off your
system as it is essential for its operation. So as you know this is an
extremely complex problem.

Well, what I have seen is that when you insall a software program and
hopefully it gives you a log although there are programs out there that will
do this if they don't. If there are any errors in the log during installation
then you generally will have difficulty uninstalling it. As it may show that
you uninstalled it but when you go to install it again it may not let you or
it will make one big mess of a system(s) or networks. So that is what I may
say is what I have seen.

"Alan" wrote:

> Hi Shenan,
>
> I complement you on your thoroughness but there are some limitations I must
> speak about.
>
> The less you have installed on your system that is too closely related the
> better off you are. In other words you ownly need one antivirus progam as
> other programs start tripping all over each other and your registry is forced
> into a total conflictive mess. One firewall will do also and no more than one
> engaged. One registry cleaner and make sure it knows what it is doing. The
> best I have seen on the market is free for the basic version and that is
> Tweak your registry entries. Very safe and not dangerous as a lot of system
> utility programs that have too many functions that are not addressed very
> carefully.
>
> Next thing is Spyware Blaster is dangerous when you get the updates as not
> everything is engaged and when I was running Norton Internet Security 2005 it
> obliterated practically all the registry entries because it uses the registry
> for spyware prevention. Spybot Search and Destroy is too infrequently updated
> although it has wonderful advanced features to it that are quite useful.
>
> Best thing happening right now is the antivirus companies are ponying up
> money and buying spyware prevention companies and integrating this into their
> software.
> Now again it is risky to run another spyware prevention program as conflicts
> can arise. Plus another double whammy is that you have to be careful what
> kind of spyware you delete off your system as legitimate software like Real
> Player and Ipod install spyware on your system. If you do peer-to-peer file
> sharing then they want to know about it. They want you to purchase their song
> tracks and not get them for gratis. Another problem is just a plain tracking
> cookie can be considered spyware when you talk about companies like atdmt. Go
> ahead and look up how much information they collect on people. [everything
> under the sun] One other dilemna with tracking cookies is if you don't let
> them in to your system then you are not going to be able to either completely
> see the website or you won't get on the website and you will just get a blank
> page.
>
> Now a form of malware is legitimate software because it does not want to get
> itself out of your registry once you uninstall it because they are
> apprehensive about you
> violating user licenses. Another problem is when it uninstalls some of the
> files are still hiding all over your system. You have to do a survey of every
> path it uses when it installs itself. Unfortunately when you go to install
> related software it will not install properly because of the mess the old
> software made out of your registry.
> Now that is malware city when you think about it and there are many
> applications that are guilty of this. Look before you install anything as
> Johnf made an excellent point about.
>
> Free programs are not free most of the time as they install spyware , adware
> or even malware on your system. Most of the programs you listed you have to
> be careful with unfortunately. Registry conflicts are a big problem with a
> lot of people's computer systems and networks. Well so is there good spyware
> or not that is the big question? Too many legitimate applications want to
> push themselves into prominence onto your system and want to be the chief
> application. Do you want it to be Windows Media Player , Real Player . or
> Apple Computers IPod companion?
>
> Another dangerous thing is downloading those so called free spyware scanners
> as once most get on your system they don't leave after uninstall.
>
> Prudent for you to go into the registry and just do a search of a program
> you just unintalled and see if they had enough integrity to clear out all the
> registry entries and they just have no default set which is great if you just
> see that. But if you go in and you see the entire right side filled with
> entries you have problems.
>
> Hence the best way for you to get rid of that annoying site is too clear out
> your history entirely. Purge your entire run command also and clear out all
> your caches that are present. One other way is to look into getting another
> browser that protects against that kind of thing.
>
> Please Internet Explorer update and add more features!!!
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>

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