Since a lot of you probably use Lavasoft Ad-Aware to protect yourselves from spyware, you will be suprised to learn that Lavasoft has removed the detection of the well known Adware bundler WhenU, without notifying it's custumers! This is another reason to take a look at some other progs like Microsoft AntiSpyware or Spybot.

Find more info about this crap at: vitalsecurity.org.

Actually, I run Ad Aware, Spybot and MS AntiSpyware.
Each program will take up the slack of the others.

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I run adaware, spybot and spyware blaster and also anti spam and anti hacker and anti abuse and privacy,,,

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> Actually, I run Ad Aware, Spybot and MS AntiSpyware.
> Each program will take up the slack of the others.
>
> .
>


AntiSpyware and Spybot are a better choice now I think, cuz Lavasoft has sold us out by doing this. There's no reason to sell people out like that without any warning. Lavasoft knows how much their customers value privacy.

Alex

> I run adaware, spybot and spyware blaster and also anti spam and anti hacker
> and anti abuse and privacy,,,
>

Man... that's a lot of stuff you're running (Ad-Aware bad). I've just never heard of anti hacker before -- I hope it's not from Lavasoft... heh.

Alex

> > I run adaware, spybot and spyware blaster and also anti spam and anti
> hacker
> > and anti abuse and privacy,,,
> >
>
> Man... that's a lot of stuff you're running (Ad-Aware bad). I've just never
> heard of anti hacker before -- I hope it's not from Lavasoft... heh.
>
> Alex
>

I could be wrong, Alex, but I believe that Rachel means her firewall being "anti-hacker". Right, Rachel? :-)

L8R....

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> I could be wrong, Alex, but I believe that Rachel means her firewall being
> "anti-hacker". Right, Rachel? :-)
>
> L8R....
>
> T'Khasi Time: Saturday, 26 February 2005 - 08:50 AM --800 (Pacific Standard
> Time)
>
>

Maybe she will soon clarify this "anti-hacker" thing so we could see if there is a way around it or not Siran, and help her better understand how a patient hacker can get around it.

> >
> > Maybe she will soon clarify this "anti-hacker" thing so we could see
> if there
> > is a way around it or not Siran, and help her better understand how a
> patient
> > hacker can get around it.
> >
>
> Why? This is a board of common discussions of different thing where people
> participate with the level of knowledge they have. If Summer calls something a
> "anti-hacker" thing, why should she be ridiculed for that. And is it so that
> we all should be afraid of hacking attempts from you if we say something? Is
> it so, that I should, for posting this, set my firewall to a higher level of
> security or even draw the cable out of the socket?
>

I think that you may have misunderstood what I was trying to say in that post Bouncer Jupiter. There was in no way any attempt by me to ridicule Summer by saying she could clarify what she meant by anti-hacker since we were discussing certain Adware removal progs. The thing you said about me trying to make Summer or anyone else afraid of hacking attempts by me was a little overdone.

> > I think that you may have misunderstood what I was trying to say in that
> post
> > Bouncer Jupiter. There was in no way any attempt by me to ridicule Summer
> by
> > saying she could clarify what she meant by anti-hacker since we were
> > discussing certain Adware removal progs. The thing you said about me
> trying to
> > make Summer or anyone else afraid of hacking attempts by me was a little
> > overdone.
> >
>
> Ok, I just think the above statement sounded a bit ominously. So I don't have
> to be afraid that you're suddenly inside my computer? :-)
>

Afraid, not at all. I was only trying to understand if Summer was referring to "anti-hacker" as an anti-spyware program or not. And if not, discuss why it would be possible to get around such an anti-hacker prog, as has been in discussed in previous posts about firewall shortcomings.

> > Afraid, not at all. I was only trying to understand if Summer was
> referring to
> > "anti-hacker" as an anti-spyware program or not. And if not, discuss why
> it
> > would be possible to get around such an anti-hacker prog, as has been in
> > discussed in previous posts about firewall shortcomings.
> >
>
> I don't know what Summer mean but I suppose, just as you do, that it's a
> firewall. And I followed with great interest the discussion in the other
> thread and I am very aware that people, who really want to get in, can. But
> again, as you all stated earlier, why bother on a single person's network at
> home. But many people feel very secure behind their firewall, so maybe I'll
> have myself a router! ;-)
>

It's not that a firewall is a bad thing, far from it, it's that many common firewalls are easy to breach through various means such as tunneling and packet fragmentation. A router with a built-in firewall would not be that much more secure than having a software one. Being carefull with your email is the best thing you could do, since a hacker could install a forwarding Trojan through email to open-up connections from your system without being detected that easy.

Check out this site, "evileyesoftware.com", to find out about a Hacker Command Module (RAT) called Optix Pro to see what I mean.