trojans?

[GOAT]

Tool and Frosty are right on..

 

Keygens = Trojans. .(but not all the time just a lot of the time)

 

AVG vs AVAST .. just a matter of personal choice. Both are good.

 

Highjackthis.. last resort, it's going to take some time to create the logs... post them and then get answers but its worth the wait and for me its better than reformatting, reinstalling the OS, getting the ton of windows updates and drivers, and losing all your files in the mean time.. but hey that's just me.. LOL.

[RNG187]

but i cant find the keygen, that's the thing.

[GOAT]

then you may not have a problem?

 

I'd still recommend highjackthis.. at least run highjackthis and paste your log file into their auto check on the first page of the site.. this will let you see exactly what things are getting loaded from you sys.ini file and give an indication of anything that is suspicious. You can do this yourself without any help or need to start a thread there are anything.. if something doesn't look right in the auto check on the log then you can go to the next step.

[HighTimesSW]

Hey I am currently taking Intro to Information Systems and the text book gave a bunch of sites that offer free solutions and preventetive software for trojans.

 

http://www.moosoft.com (Trojan Detector)

 

http://www.widers.org (Trojan First Aid Kit)

 

http://www.lavasoftUSA.com (Trojan Blocker) Ad-Aware and PestPatrol

 

http://www.spychecker.com (lets you check if software contains a trojan)

 

 

also, there are a lot of sites you visit that keep track of all the sites you visit, and sells that information to the third party companies (apprently one the biggest is a company called DoubleClick), through cookie instalation. There is a program called CookieCop 2 you can get that would signal you when a web site tries to install a cookie and would ask if its ok.

 

Also if you dont any information being collected about you while surfing the web, you can get anonymous Web brousing (AWB) software from

 

http://www.anonymizer.com which routes your traffic through an outside server.

 

if you dont want to go through an outside server, you can use SurfSecret software from

 

http://www.surfsecret.com (it does more than just hide your identity as well)

 

thought that was all pretty interesting, actually learning something from these text books I can use. heh

 

 

[GOAT]

interesting although a bit outdated..

 

microsoft... (trojan defender) is actually "Defender" and comes part of a Vista OS now (will probably be included in the next version as well.)

 

widers.com Never heard of it although I'm suspicious of anti-virus programs named "First Aid" almost like they bandage it and don't really fix it.. LOL

 

lavasoft.. ad-aware and PestPatrol both have been know to include spy ware themselves.. may get pegged by other anti-virus software as spyware and although I've only read other people's opinion on Pest Patrol I can state that Ad-Aware is not any good.

 

spychecker... both AVG and AVAST will do this for you as well.

 

 

On the tracking security..

 

anomysizer.. well running through a router basically does the same thing in a sense.

 

surfsecret.. don't know anything about this one.. that's probably not a good thing since I know or at least have heard about all the so called good ones.

 

Lastly Doubleclick.. yeah they suck.. eBay is one of their biggest clients.. its not that big a deal though.. its really a lot like a counter or visits tracker across the board than an specific spytracker.. clearing your cookies, running Firefox's clear private data on exit tool option and other methods easily erase doubleclicks cookie.. however if you use sites like eBay that use it.. it will only put itself back in the next time you visit. blocking it may cause those sites to not load some things.. its harmless for the most part.

[frostybob]

One thing that I'd like to mention, as I've been seeing a lot more of these kinds of things both here at work and outside with friends' machines...

 

If you're ever browsing merrily and you're redirected to some website that looks like it automatically begins scanning for viruses (and subsequently tells you that your PC is infected), close the f'ing window. Don't, under any circumstances, install whatever product the site advises that you install. It doesn't matter what it is, Antivirus2009, AV2010, any sort of spyware-removal utility, anything. These programs are all simply trojans, and while by themselves they aren't too great a threat, as soon as they're installed you're open to the more nefarious viruses out there (rootkits, primarily).

 

A good rule of thumb is, if you didn't initiate the connection, you don't want whatever they're offering.

 

 

[GOAT]

frostybob ]

 

 

A good rule of thumb is, if you didn't initiate the connection, you don't want whatever they're offering.

 

 

 

That's true for Hookers too..