Re: beware

[Leigh Meyers <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's a common practice for spyware to have names like spysheriff and such.

Go into the settings > ignore products menu and check out the list of names.

You can set Spybot to ignore the applications that you use in this section.

...and if you don't want to have to re-login to every site you visit
after scanning your computer, then you'll want to have a look at the
'ignore cookies' section and put checks in all the cookie boxes you
know are legit. Spybot will warn you that you've checked a 'nasty
cookie' if you do that by accident.

Also, if you are the only user of the computer and have other ways of
preventing unauthorized access then you might also want to catch the
first flock of 'histories', 'most recently useds' warnings, right
click, and request Spybot S&D not look for them anymore.

You might see one occasionally after that if you add new software.

The first couple of times you run it, you'll need to 'prune' what you
don't want removed and after that, just check for new cookies you
might want to save. You can do that as the scan is running.

Leigh

On 6/9/07, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> so I decided to install Spybot Search & Destroy (anti-spyware) on my
> son's computer. Googling gave a list of sites, including something
> called "Spyware Bot." By mistake, I clicked on it. Seeing a nice
> website with promises of a free anti-spyware program, I said "what the
> heck, it's not what I wanted exactly, but let's try it..." So I
> downloaded, installed, ran it. Wow there's a lot of spyware -- but in
> order to get rid of it, you have to register it. This, like with a lot
> of other "freeware," involved money. So I uninstalled it.
>
> No problem, but when I finally got Spybot S & D running, it found that
> its imitator had left spyware behind -- which it couldn't get rid of
> until the next reboot!
>
> whoever invented marketing should rot in hell.
>
> --
> Jim Devine /  "if there's an original thought out there, I could use
> it right now." -- Bob Dylan & Sam Shepherd.