Jon Tydda
jon at tydda.plus.com
Sun Jan 28 07:01:26 CST 2007
Firewalls won't stop spyware. Firewalls are designed to stop people gaining active connections to your pc. Spyware (Which includes Malware - things designed to make your pc stop working) is just small bits of software that are loaded from dodgy websites when you visit them. When I say that Spybot doesn't find anything, I'm thinking it's because I keep their blocked list up to date. Well worth doing that IMO. I take it you removed those 153 files? Is the PC faster now? My personal record for Spyware removal is over 300 separate files, although I did have one at work the other day with over 3000 infected files, although that was all from one trojan. I seriously thought aboput fixing that one with a magnet... Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins Sent: 28 January 2007 01:09 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The latest AVG anti-virus Well, I stopped the scan at 153 spyware files. :( What a racket. I'm curious -- I'm using Windows firewall. I really didn't expect to have this level of infection. Susan H. I use those too, Ad-Aware finds stuff all the time, Spybot hasn't found anything in months. The version of Zonealarm I have has AS in it, and is pretty good too. _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- This email has been verified as Virus free Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net