Smashing the Spyware Record

[SagaLore]

Originally spyware was a big problem for us when uses installed crap like Webshots, iMesh, etc. But now we have an enforced policy that keeps users from installing that stuff - but, now we're having problems with spyware because of holes in Internet Explorer. I had a brand new formatted machine given to a user, in less than 2 weeks it was almost unusable because of spyware. I tracked down the source using our web monitor to a harmless website, just a page about sports and such - something was in the HTML that used an exploit to install the spyware without prompts, and that spyware then installed more spyware.

The antvirus companies just started adding spyware detection but it's not great, they really need to step up and treat them like viruses, creating signatures for them as needed.

 

[Bumrush99]

Horrible. People like that should have their computers on lockdown, no rights to install anything on it.

 

[mcveigh]

hmmm I just removed 700 pieces of spyware and 60 viruses, I installed spybot, adaware, and spywareblaster. also put on new anti-virus.
I charged $270.00

raise your rates!

 

[YetioDoom]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: vi_edit
I think the only way to truely save that things soul was a format and be a born again O/S.

Yep, I just had to format and start over - too much spyware I couldn't get rid of.

 

[blakeatwork]

heheh.. it's people like that that keep me in business...

I used to bitch about lusers and viruses... now I just happily accept their $75 flat fee for the 1/2 hour it takes... which I of course use co-op students for...

 

[blakeatwork]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
Well if I did that she'd be in the next day complaining that she can't install her LimeWires and iMeshes, and if I flat out told her when she comes to pick it up that she won't be able to install programs any longer she'd probably start flipping out and complaining like OMGWTFBBIMESHISGREAT!1lol

Anyway, I left AVG on there and had SpyBot immunize it with the new detection definitions, so hopefully those defenses hold for at least a month until she's in here again complaining that the Porn Zapper she downloaded opened 50 IE windows and crashed XP.

Then grow a set, create an Acceptable Use Policy (or just plagarize someone else's), submit it to the bigwigs for approval, and by monday, Miss IMesh can go crying back to her desk, mesh-less...

 

[hevnsnt]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
2/3rds of our business where I work comes from spyware. People who are too inept to browse the internet without giving their computer Herpes.

At first I thought you were a scumbag spyware scammer.

 

[Supermercado]

Amazing. Since I don't do that stuff for a living and don't have friends or family coming to me asking me to fix their computers, it never really occurs to me how much stuff one person can put on a computer and bring it to its knees. I try and keep my systems clean but every time I read one of these threads, it makes me wonder what people who do this stuff for a living would think of my systems...

 

[RagingBITCH]

I've had more than that on a few computers I worked on at BB, but that's still a lot. Did that 2xxx also include cookies, because it's unfair to count that.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: blakeatwork
Then grow a set, create an Acceptable Use Policy (or just plagarize someone else's), submit it to the bigwigs for approval, and by monday, Miss IMesh can go crying back to her desk, mesh-less...

I think this was Miss iMesh's personal compy. People seem to think his post implies that she works at his company. Read a little closer; it doesn't.

 

[Gravity]

Pics of the ditz?

 

[blakeatwork]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: blakeatwork
Then grow a set, create an Acceptable Use Policy (or just plagarize someone else's), submit it to the bigwigs for approval, and by monday, Miss IMesh can go crying back to her desk, mesh-less...

I think this was Miss iMesh's personal compy. People seem to think his post implies that she works at his company. Read a little closer; it doesn't.

Objection denied!

I re-read, and it does look that way... my comment still stands though...

 

[mobobuff]

Yeah, thanks Yuki. We provide wireless internet, but we do not limit our repair services to the subscribers of it. We take anything. This was just an ignorant girl with a laptop.

Gravity

Pics of the ditz?

Yeah, actually, her background was a huge picture of herself. How vain. Not at work right now though, maybe tomorrow.

And as much as I do hate spyware, it does bring in the dough.

Oh, and another thing I hate, people with babies who insist on making a folder with 23948923 of their baby pictures and setting their screen-saver to slide-show them, and then they have them set to activate at 60 seconds of inactivity. Millions of drooling and clueless looking faces with no hair and just... mis-shapened... not natural... ugly babies. Also, when a computer comes in from a family of heavy smokers... those things just exhaust cigarette smoke.

*starts to defrag hard drive*
*comes back 10 minutes later to find a drooling retarded baby has interrupted the defrag and it must now reset*