Thread: Practice Safe Internet!

Some of you guys and gals must not have a clue that you are placing a lot of links in the posts here to sites that are absolutely polluted with all kinds of automatic Trojans, spyware, adware, malware etc. etc.

I just spent the entire day cleaning up my pc and removing all the adware and trojans my PC picked up after following a few poster's links here. Man oh man this stuff is devious too - all manner of memory resident exploits that replicate themselves and hide from my pest scanners and try to attach themselves as XP services and free running DLLs. I had to use some heavy tactics to clean it all up and I am not talking tetracycline but hard and deliberate hand editing of the program register with a scalpel.

So please, if you are unsure about the integrity of a site do not blindly post a link to it. Chances are if you link into one of those foaming at the mouth anti-establishment type sites or sleezy picture sites its mined with nasty trojans. It's like introducing a friend to a promiscuous woman then getting the favor reciprocated (with prejudice) when someone refers you to her nastier sister and then everyone is running around with the creeping crud.

I just turned all my security setting to high (with prompts for scripts) after getting rid of all the nasties some of you all inadvertently pushed on us. Won’t mention any names (yet).

If you have no idea what I am talking about - better get a pest scanner very very fast because I can assure you that if you follow some of the links around here your PC is swarming with all manner of infectious spyware, malware and adware and probably reporting your every activity to some pervert working out of a prison library PC somewhere. Check out a few of the pest scanner products (lavasoft adaware, pestpatrol, spycop). You might be very startled to find out what is running and hijacking your browsers.

-OD

I recommend using Spybot in addition to ad-aware. They work good together.