[wplug] Re: Windows - Is this happening to you too?

[Chan, William]

I have some success in using PestPatrol Corp to get rid of spyware, I
disconnect the network cable, boot to safe mode, disable restore
services, to give PestPatrol a hand, I go into Control Panel, add/remove
program and try to get rid of anything that looks like adware or
spyware, using msconfig to disable anything things that startup and
shouldn't be there, run PestPatrol and let it scan ALL files, select all
and delete the spyware.
 
Just to be safe, I boot the PC up with INSERT, mount the WIN file system
and use ClamAV to make sure all the trojan are gone, however, still
having problem trying to mount NTFS in rw mode using captive-ntfs.
 
I did find a Linux virus on a PC (Lunix.Lion.Worm) that way replacing
the pagefile.sys and none of the Windoze AV is able to find it and the
user keep getting "out of virtual memory" error
 
Good luck!
 
Bill
 
-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+wchan=supreme.court.state.pa.us at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+wchan=supreme.court.state.pa.us at wplug.org] On
Behalf Of John M. Rocker
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 9:13 AM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: [wplug] Re: Windows - Is this happening to you too?


OK I have to put my 2 cents in.  I run a small ISP and the majority of
our end users are running win 98.  I know back in the stone age.  Most
of our problems come from XP and ME.  I personally run Mandrake and win
2K for a few necessary programs.  The is only so much you can do to
prevent spyware.  We scan viruses and spam but we still have problems
with virus on our network coming over via html.  You can only educate
the public if they are having a problem....  spyware virus spam..  We
tried sending mass emails and being informative but it doesn't work.
Microsoft has the country by their mice because it is easy.  Autoinstall
autoconfigure autoblow up and autopropogate virus.  The one person/
company that can do anything about it has done nothing other than be a
pain in my a$$.  So here it is a toast to the open source community
where software is built all for one and used one for all.  GPL. 
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