[dba-Tech] Counter Spy

Peter Brawley peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Wed May 30 07:51:44 CDT 2007


For us CounterSpy found about a half-dozen Trojans that SpywareBlaster & 
SpyBotS&D didn't recognise.

PB

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Dan Waters wrote:
> Jon & Lembit,
>
> What were you using previously that did not find the keylogger or the Trojan
> downloaders?
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:04 AM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Counter Spy
>
> Yeah, it found some trojan downloaders on mine, which was kinda scary!
>
>
> Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lembit Soobik [mailto:lembit.dbamail at t-online.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:48 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Counter Spy
>
>
> I downloaded and installed it.
> It found WinControl, a Keylogger!
>
> Thanks a lot, Jon.
>
> Lembit
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bobby Heid" <bheid at sc.rr.com>
> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" 
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Counter Spy
>
>
> Ok Jon,
>
> I bought it on your recommendation.  It better be good!  LOL.
>
> Bobby
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 6:46 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Counter Spy
>
> I've just downloaded and installed Counter Spy - £15 for 3 years worth of
> updates was too silly a price to pass up. This evening, I'd run Spybot 1.4,
> Ad-Aware 1.06, ZoneAlarm's AS tool and diskclean before I ran Counter Spy.
> it picked up 16 items that needed treating.
>
>
>
> It's good - runs nice and small in the background, even on my E6600 Core 2
> Duo with 2gb RAM ;-)
>
>
>
> I'm kinda worried as to how long some of these things have been on my system
> though, although I've only had this new build installed for just over a
> month, it picked up things in the windows folder on the old hard drive. who
> knows what's been allowed to happen? Scary stuff!
>
>
>
>
>
> Jon
>
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