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Subject: Virus Help Links
Posted by: TB
- Leader [31811922] Sat, May 15, 2004, 02:04
There are a couple "current" threads in the baseball forum and one in the politics forum that have some good information. Plenty of good information about spyware and pop-ups in several threads but I think the first link below has some rock solid information.
Virus Help From Politics Forum
These two baseball threads
Baseball Link Virus Help
Baseball Link Trojan Help
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This next link is to a great site that provides free tools like the ones listed below the link itself. If you are paranoid or even just a little concerned about internet security, you should check this site out.
Gibson Research Corporation
1) LeakTest. Ensure that your PC's personal firewall can not be easily fooled by malicious "Trojan" programs or viruses. Thanks to this first version of LeakTest, most personal firewalls are now safe from such simple exploitation.
2) ShieldsUP! system tests. The Internet's quickest, most popular, reliable and trusted, free Internet security checkup and information service. And now in its Port Authority Edition, it's also the most powerful and complete. Check your system and begin learning about using the Internet safely.
3) DCOMbobulator. This allows any Windows user to easily verify the effectiveness of Microsoft's recent critical DCOM patch. Confirmed reports have demonstrated that the patch is not always effective in eliminating DCOM's remote exploit vulnerability. But more importantly, since DCOM is a virtually unused and unneeded facility, the DCOMbobulator allows any Windows user to easily disable DCOM for significantly greater security.
4) Shoot The Messenger. Even before the latest DCOM/RPC vulnerability (see above), many Windows users were being annoyed by "pop-up spam" notices appearing on their desktops. This intrusion is also facilitated by an exploitation of port 135. Our free "Shoot The Messenger" utility furthers the security of Windows by quickly and easily shutting down the "Windows Messenger" server that should never have been running by default in the first place.
5) UnPlug n' Pray. As originally urged by the FBI, and still urged by prominent security experts, our UnPnP utility easily disables the dangerous, and almost always unnecessary, Universal Plug and Play service. If you don't need it, turn it off. (For ALL versions of Windows.)
6) XPdite. A Critical Security Vulnerability Exists in Windows XP. (Surprise) Actually, as we know, there are many, but we'll handle them one at a time. This particular vulnerability allows the files contained in any specified directory on your system to be deleted if you click on a specially formed URL. This URL could appear anywhere: sent in malicious eMail, in a chat room, in a newsgroup posting, on a malicious web page, or even executed when your computer merely visits a malicious web page. It is already being exploited on the Internet.
Lots more at that site. All the info from 1) to 6) copied from the link posted above.
A couple more links worth looking into if you have problems:
Grisoft.Com AVG Antivirus
Download Free Zone Alarm - Firewall Protection You can also perform a free system scan to identify tracking cookies and a range of internet tracking devices to help assess your security needs at that link.
Lastly: http://hackerwatch.org/. I think you can test your firewall at this site if you go to http://www.hackerwatch.org/probe. |
| 1 | Matt G
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Thu, May 20, 2004, 12:18
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I wanted to add a few things to this...
ADAWARE will get rid of all the spyware on your PC it works really well and is free and easy.
If you want virus protection and don't want to pay, AVG is what you need. Go to www.grisoft.com and download it, free and easy.
Just a quick virus alert, my gf who is very well protected got a trojan horse. It was named downloader.qdown.c. If you think you might have this trojan horse, or if your virus software picks it up there is a tricky way to get rid of it. AVG works to get rid of it, but first you have to turn off your system restore and reboot. I then recommend running Adaware and deleting everything it finds, and finally run AVG. It will find and clean the virus. You can then reboot the machine as it should be clean then turn System restore back on.
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