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Spyware tracking cookies
10/09/10 at 13:31:01

Spywares and tracking cookies are starting to get freeking ridiculous. I can remember scanning my C:/ drive every other week and getting 15-20 spyware tracers or tracking cookies off my machine.

This morning I did my weekly scan and pulled off 674 tracking cookies and adwares. I cleaned and scrapped them all. Ran it again for the shits and giggles of it and got zero spywares and cookies, so the anti spyware was consistent at least and did remove what it had located.

.... browsed around a bit on line, check an item on ebay, used a little bit of simple Google and Dogpile searches, came on here and teased Bill a little bit and then quit for the afternoon.

Ran the antispyware package again, just to see how many cookies and spywares you will pick up in a single afternoon.

Expected a few but got 274 ???

This is getting freeking ridiculous -- no wonder people complain about their PCs acting slow all the time.

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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: Spyware tracking cookies Reply #1 - 10/09/10 at 13:36:52 Thats what you get for teasing me
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Oldfeller--FSO Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Hobby is now "concentrated neuropany" Posts: 12639 Fayetteville, NC Gender:	Re: Spyware tracking cookies Reply #2 - 10/09/10 at 14:35:34 Oh God, red magic oil tracking cookies .... Quick Bill, go to RSD top post and tell the newbie girl to go fill her carb bowl and gas tank up with Seafoam .... I'm gonna have 1,000 tracking cookies fer that one
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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	Re: Spyware tracking cookies Reply #3 - 10/09/10 at 15:20:49 That's what happened to Bill's battery,all the cookies escaped.
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Charon Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1811 Harvard, NE Gender:	Re: Spyware tracking cookies Reply #4 - 10/09/10 at 20:41:13 Just from curiosity, which spyware scanning program(s) do you use?
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Re: Spyware tracking cookies
Reply #5 - 10/09/10 at 21:57:57

them are only half the worries... adaware se is a fine product for free, however most of your antispyware is not proactive...
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/
is an excelent addition to your arsenal, the scan feature itself is slow but its the Immunize feature i like... Warning, do not play with Tea Timer or any other option they provide, simply install run the update, pick a spot, make sure to run the Immunize.. what it does is simple.. Adds gangs of "Bad redirects / malware sites/ blah blah" to a redirect found in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts ... an example:
127.0.0.1 3bay.it

what this tells your Winders Pc is that anyplace trying to slip you a redirect or point you to XXXXXXXX.3bay.it is going to go into nothingness... the ether.. a loopback address that does not go out..

this is why i like it.. creates blackholes for you ... proactive like..

additionally you can add to your own hosts file... its able to be opened by notepad and add the other baddies .. like all the ads redirect sites..

found here for an idea what im blabberin about:
http://www.malwaredomains.com/bhdns.html

and here for copy / paste to your own hosts file... good stuff..
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

WARNING start your copy / paste into your notepad from that site at the line that states:
#<shock-sites>
all the way down... will not hurt your own hosts file..
paste it into your hosts file at the end... it does not care .. winders that is...

will go along way to help...

ive paid my debt to Ol Feller! wooo! Grin

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Lupo Senior Member Offline Posts: 356	Re: Spyware tracking cookies Reply #6 - 10/09/10 at 22:12:52 I got this thing that keeps flashing across my screen in big yellow letters and says >>>OIL-WORM<<< ...so I've been wondering. What is the best oil for worms? Castor or mineral? Yea I know, it's an oil thread.
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Re: Spyware tracking cookies
Reply #7 - 10/09/10 at 22:15:53

DOH! sheesh i forgot after you change your host file... MAKE SURE TO reboot...

ps... Im happy to explain step by step for those who are not comfortable doing what i just blabbered about... no worries...easy peasy.. trust me you do NOT need sandbox i.e. unless you dont want to do all this stuff... Now sandbox I.E. is THE way to go if you dont wanna mess around like what i explained and you are running windows... which i dont like but hey... im not here to convince you to run a platform that will never crash and never get viruses and... you dont wanna hear the rest... Cool

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cornfuzed Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 269 grinnin from coast to coast Gender:	Re: Spyware tracking cookies Reply #8 - 10/09/10 at 22:17:01 Lupo wrote on 10/09/10 at 22:12:52: I got this thing that keeps flashing across my screen in big yellow letters and says >>>OIL-WORM<<< ...so I've been wondering. What is the best oil for worms? Castor or mineral? Yea I know, it's an oil thread. Try Bills Klotz for Worms... too funny
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28779 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Spyware tracking cookies Reply #9 - 10/09/10 at 23:17:26 cornfuzed wrote on 10/09/10 at 22:17:01: Try Bills Klotz for Worms... Becareful, when you use bills klotz, it'll get rid of the worms alright... what's the phrase? 'this too will pass'? all too quickly
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Re: Spyware tracking cookies
Reply #10 - 10/10/10 at 02:16:54

Verslagen,

Did you finish up the case of Klotz? If so what was the final usage rate compared to RotSyn? Very important now that it is all over to collect all the final bits of information for Bill to suffer over all fresh and new again.

Salt, you know -- sprinkled periodically over his multiple oil war boo-boos.

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I currently use old XP computers and I have found that simpler faster freeware anti-virus and anti-spywares make my scan times be lower and my life more appealing as I periodically dump my way through the 6 boxes/laptops I have to take care of. (Wife keeps a main machine and three laptops -- she teaches in college and keeps a separate world for each course). I got 4 xp, a Vista and a Windows 7 to take care of.

Anti-Virus is Microsoft Security Essentials, XP 32 bit version or Win7 64 bit depending on the machine.

Anti-Spyware is SuperAntiSpyware

I have tried most all the freewares and found that the good ones have picked up a lot of program mass to handle Vista and Windows 7 (bloatware breeds bloatware) so I picked me a pair that run as small and clean as possible.

I was amazed to find some freewares use 100% of your processor to run themselves (fans a whirring and Task Manager performance bars fully pegged). I can't be having that .... I have to use the stupid things while they are scanning themselves.

Cornfuzed -- you must be an IT professional. I couldn't even follow what you were talking about hosts and all -- never been a Catholic either so I have very marginal understanding of hosts, holy or otherwise. Grin

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Re: Spyware tracking cookies
Reply #11 - 10/11/10 at 10:45:51

Actually, I have 2 simple steps to make your life easier:

1) Download Firefox (http://www.getfirefox.net/)

2) Install ad block plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865/)

That'll get rid of about 99% of the issues caused by browsing with IE. In recent times, I've only run into 1 site that doesn't work with Firefox and that one runs the web version of Microsoft Exchange.

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Re: Spyware tracking cookies
Reply #12 - 10/11/10 at 11:24:07

cornfuzed wrote on 10/09/10 at 21:57:57:

and here for copy / paste to your own hosts file... good stuff..
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

WARNING start your copy / paste into your notepad from that site at the line that states:
#<shock-sites>
all the way down... will not hurt your own hosts file..
paste it into your hosts file at the end... it does not care .. winders that is...

will go along way to help...

I did what you said... I have no clue what that does, or why I needed to, but I did it anyway...
PS.. (That's the biggest drag n' drop I ever did!... Grin

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Re: Spyware tracking cookies
Reply #13 - 10/14/10 at 22:28:28

Serowbot wrote on 10/11/10 at 11:24:07:

cornfuzed wrote on 10/09/10 at 21:57:57:

and here for copy / paste to your own hosts file... good stuff..
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

WARNING start your copy / paste into your notepad from that site at the line that states:
#<shock-sites>
all the way down... will not hurt your own hosts file..
paste it into your hosts file at the end... it does not care .. winders that is...

will go along way to help...

I did what you said... I have no clue what that does, or why I needed to, but I did it anyway...
PS.. (That's the biggest drag n' drop I ever did!... Grin

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Great for you! Wink

Now to more understand what youve done, go to the hosts file
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
right click with mouse and choose Open, Windows will ask what to open with .. Select the notepad. Go down to where you see
127.0.0.1 <something.com>
and try to go to the website in a browser
for example try to go to www.blackblues00.com
your browser will comeback with more than likely a blank page... Reason... Your pc now knows that this site is addressed to 127.0.0.1.. A loopback address.... Congrats you now are more safe than you were before you did it... Cool

now go out to safernetworking.org and download spybot s&d - install - do NOT choose the Tea Timer or the System Protector blah blah.. just install... run updates ... Run Immunize... you will be better off..

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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28385 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Spyware tracking cookies Reply #14 - 10/15/10 at 00:01:18 You're not near as "cornfuzed" as your name would imply... I tried your test and think I understand a bit better now,.. and I'll do Spybot next... Thanks... ...
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