Virus??

[G-Force Glockstar]

Someone is putting a virus in my computer, and they can know where I am surfing on the internet.
I don't really know much about this. What should I do?

[Kay Scarpetta]

Sounds like Spyware to me. I had a hell of a time with that on my old computer...

Do you have KaZaA on your computer? p2p networking? Comet Cursor? Some of these are the biggest causes of Spyware.

What you need to do is download some kind of removal tool- I recommed Spybot- Search & Destroy. I use it. Run it and see what turns up.

[*Marilyn Monroe*]

Speaking of that...I used Ad-Aware to scan my computer, which seems to be working fine. Except that it finds IBIS Toolbar everytime, and says it gets rid of it everytime. I can't find it anywhere on my computer, and I don't know how to get rid of it.

[G-Force Glockstar]

Thanks, but how do they know what I'm surfing??

[Kay Scarpetta]

double

[Kay Scarpetta]

Originally posted by FullHouseFan8795
Thanks, but how do they know what I'm surfing??

Spy-ware. It's basically self explanitory, but if you want to get technical-

Let's start with a common type of spyware: Adware. In simplest terms, Adware is a software program that tracks for a website’s owner the web pages you visit and collects information about your preferences. So basically, it watches what you do and where you go. I didn't really believe it at first, but yes. Anyone with Spy-ware in their system has people spying on them. Adware helps the website owner learn more about customer preferences, but, most importantly, adware helps the website owner sell advertising space. How? No clue. It baffles me. But the stuff's a bitch to get rid of.

When you visit a site that uses and/or is supported by Adware, the adware is downloaded onto your computer. News outlets, industry portals, search engines, shopping sites, travel sites, and sites offering free “shareware” frequently use adware. Nearly everyone has some sort of Adware on your computer- it's just a matter of if you search your system for it or not.

The job of most adware programs is to collect demographic information about you—what web sites and web pages you visit, what banner ads you clicked and what terms you search. Some particularly invasive programs continue to track the sites you visited long after your have left the site where the adware resided. Some adware continues to collect data until it reaches a pre-determined expiration date or you delete it, either of which could be years. The demographics are sent to the media network’s central database.

The media network gives the adware to hundreds of website owners, accumulates a large inventory of ad space to sell, uses the demographics it collects to identify sets of web sites that make good advertising packages, and sells the packages to advertisers. The advertiser buys a package and his or her ads suddenly appear across dozens of sites before people who, according to their demographics, are interested in the advertiser’s product. This is why you can visit a site and see a banner ad for a vacation resort while your friend visits the same site and sees an ad for diet supplements.


So basically, if you don't get rid it, you're screwed

[G-Force Glockstar]

I'll ask my Dad to help me fix it later

[Hollow]

If you have windows XP you can hit CTRL+ALT+Delete, go to the 'processes' tab, and probably figure out hich program is doing that.. then go to control panel > add/remove programs and remove it.

[GMunster]

I can get rid of it for you FullHouseFan8795. Do you have AOL?

[Brian]

I think you should probably read this.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...5524_2004jun25

[GMunster]

Well, before you know, probably somebody in Hong Kong will be ordering tampons, and someone in Mexico City will get the bill. Everythings probably gonna get screwed up.

[Chelsea]

Hmm, based on the reports, all the infections appear to be coming via Internet Explorer.

Mozilla (Firefox 0.9, to be precise)...gotta love it

[G-Force Glockstar]

Originally posted by GMunster
I can get rid of it for you FullHouseFan8795. Do you have AOL?

Yes, but I can't use it. I have AIM...will that help?

[G-Force Glockstar]

Is there something I can download in about 5 minutes to get rid of it without having to pay money?

[AnaheimPMWitch]

I've recently had problems with Spyware it totally messed up my entire computer and I had to reload windows *sighs* (thank god for my brother the computer whiz) anyways THE best thing to do to PREVENT getting it is not to download Kazaa,Morpheus,Weather Bug ..things like that I had Morpheus and Weather Bug and My brother had said those two things are the Most used for Spyware after we reloaded windows those were the first two things to go