[dba-Tech] Compromised Internet Explorer?

Jon,

I think I'll try that IE 6 SP1 download you suggested.

Re ZoneAlarm, all right. I'll uninstall the old Pro version and see
about installing the newer free version. I agree with you about the
more recent version.

So your ASW program saw Belarc things and flagged them as spyware, eh?
Interesting. I don't think I've run a spyware check since I installed
Belarc. I'd better check.

Thanks, Jon.

Steve Erbach

On 5/5/05, Jon Tydda <Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk> wrote:
> I haven't seen anything exactly like that per se, but I have had some
> trouble with IE (who hasn't?) before. If you go to
> www.microsoft.com/downloads you can download the administrator installer for
> Internet Explorer 6 SP1, which you can run from a memory stick or a cd or
> something. Reinstall it from scratch, it should let you do that.
> 
> You can install the latest version of the free version of zonealarm without
> any problems - if her subscription has run out then she has out of date
> protection, and my reasoning would be that a slightly downgraded up to date
> firewall is better than a 2 year old one with bells and whistles on.
> 
> I'd also run a Panda online scan, and download McAfee Stinger and let that
> run, just to be on the safe side too.
> 
> Oh, and speaking of Belarc, I installed that last week, and the next time I
> ran my spyware checkers, it was full of back office things... I don't
> remember visiting any spurious websites or installing anything else, and I'm
> surprised that a security product would install something that's likely to
> be flagged as spyware without telling you...
> 
> Sorry, meant to post this hours ago, but someone went and broke a pc...
> users! :-)
> 
> Jon
>