Oh, My, God.
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<div class="IPBDescription">I'm a Porn Zombie?</div> After looking through a old issue of PC Magazine, I happened upon a "Security Watch" article called :Don't Let Your PC Become a Porn Zombie.
They said I oughta check a lot of stuff, get a personal firewall going, and the such.
They also said to check out the free PestPatrol Port Checker to scan my ports for Trojan activity.
Oh my god. I'm nowhere near done with the scanning, and I just hit 375 in "pest" amount, most of it being spyware/adware/spam-relays, all being pinged off my computer. Its scary.
I highly reccommend using this stuff. Its....oh boy.
<a href='http://pestpatrol.com/support/about/about_ports_and_trojans.asp#advice' target='_blank'>http://pestpatrol.com/support/about/about_...jans.asp#advice</a>
They said I oughta check a lot of stuff, get a personal firewall going, and the such.
They also said to check out the free PestPatrol Port Checker to scan my ports for Trojan activity.
Oh my god. I'm nowhere near done with the scanning, and I just hit 375 in "pest" amount, most of it being spyware/adware/spam-relays, all being pinged off my computer. Its scary.
I highly reccommend using this stuff. Its....oh boy.
<a href='http://pestpatrol.com/support/about/about_ports_and_trojans.asp#advice' target='_blank'>http://pestpatrol.com/support/about/about_...jans.asp#advice</a>
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And whats wrong with <a href='http://www.zombiepinups.com' target='_blank'>Zombie Porn?</a> :-)
NOTE: Not really porn <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
And whats wrong with <a href='http://www.zombiepinups.com' target='_blank'>Zombie Porn?</a> :-)
NOTE: Not really porn <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'd still check. It says in here that even users with countless checkers, quite a few firewalls, and all that stuff, still tend to have 100-200 different PC using you as a proxy.
it always says 0 pests on that. Try the trial version on pestpatrol, and it'll show what really is.
Get a firewall. Now. And stop looking at porn so damn much.
Thanks for the program link, I'll check it out when I get the chance. Damn Kazza has so much spyware on my comp its out of line.
Thanks for the program link, I'll check it out when I get the chance. Damn Kazza has so much spyware on my comp its out of line. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Have you tried Kazaa-Lite?
Post a link to the download page if your gonna recommend!
I set IE to not accept cookies. To not run Java or scripts. Basically, everything is turned OFF in the security section. Does this mean I should get less/no adware/spyware etc... ?
Then again my router and hardware firewall are so tightly closed I have to spend about 20 minutes to open a single port from my side, can't imagine its worth the effort to someone on the outside when theres much easier targts out there...
Used Ad-Aware yesterday so in theory it shouldn't be too bad.....
Download done.
Um... illegal operation.
Restarting <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->
Which makes me wonder, all these problems that absolutely no other firewall/virus scanner/adaware/spybot can pick up, yet everyone logs up millions of problems using there own free evalution software - problems that can only be fixed if you pay them money.
I smell a con ;(
Which makes me wonder, all these problems that absolutely no other firewall/virus scanner/adaware/spybot can pick up, yet everyone logs up millions of problems using there own free evalution software - problems that can only be fixed if you pay them money.
I smell a con ;( <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
You know, I think I do too. Its...something ain't right here.
I checked my PC in the command prompt with netstat -a, like the mag said I should, and no links are going out to any PCs other than here at my house, whether I'm online or not.
Hmm....scam....we all must investigate this.
I smell a con ;( <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You know, I think I do too. Its...something ain't right here.
I checked my PC in the command prompt with netstat -a, like the mag said I should, and no links are going out to any PCs other than here at my house, whether I'm online or not.
Hmm....scam....we all must investigate this. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wooo! Conspiracy!
They also have a conspiracy to not let it run on my machine whatever I do <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->
ROFL. Same here. First boot after reinstalling everything is like....spring after a long winter <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Thanks for the program link, I'll check it out when I get the chance. Damn Kazza has so much spyware on my comp its out of line. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Have you tried Kazaa-Lite? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
shh ... lawsuits have beem filed against google linking to kazaa lite
<a href='http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=789' target='_blank'>The Complaint</a>
... ironically <i>the link to the complaint page contains the sites</i>
very sneaky google <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
where is said program you are all talking about...
oh the Free download thing on the top right, ok lets ee what this silly tihng will do, aside from not downloading properly
I'd still do a clean up or two if I were you, if you haven't done one recently.
Adaware is decent if you keep it updated. Also you should get used to the layout of your harddrive, then you can easily spot things that don't belong.
ROFL. Same here. First boot after reinstalling everything is like....spring after a long winter <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Unfortunatly I can't reformat because I kind of........
lost my windows disk.
Yep. There goes ?200 or however much I paid for it (o.k, <u>I</u> didn't pay for it but you know...)
Sure I could buy windows XP, but from what i've read (and experienced from my mum's computer) XP is nothing but a game-slower-downer. The only redeeming feature is system restore. Just give me 98 with system restore and I'll be happy, I don't NEED all your crap which stops HL from running properly <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->
But, I did just get Red Hat Linux 8 and Partition Magic so i plan on testing out linux, i hear its a lot better in many ways.
Plus, when you reformat, isn't your hard-drive wiped...Or is there an option to keep certain things (which I doubt...since reformating pretty much explains it all)? As in hours of downloading those impossible to find MST3k that you can't buy, thrown out the window? Among other things...
Although I did delete like 20 things with the add/remove programs things....Crappy Compaq Games and useless software that I'll not only never see, but never want to see, and don't know where it's installed.