Spyware
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What a piece of cr.. spyware is. I had a particular nasty one this weekend. "NextCoup". it installs, it registers, it copies files, puts itself in the Chrome exentions, etc... I had to run Spybot, unintall in Programs&Features, remove manually from disc, delete all occurances in the registry, uninstall Chrome and finally reinstall Chrome to get rid of it. The uninstall is also very, very low, because it gives a popup: Do you want to uninstall (large letters). Then a bunch of text and in that text: "Press Yes to uninstall and install another interesting program to help you, ...bla bla bla, click No to just uninstall, press Cancel to cancel the uninstall". I mean I'm pretty good at this stuff (compared to the average user) and even I had trouble getting rid of it. They should find out whoever develops this stuff, arrest them and execute them. (not literally of course)
V.
(MQOTD rules and previous solutions)I watched a good Ted talk on this by Mike Hypponen[^] (I think that's the one, but would advise checking out all of his stuff), apparantly a lot of this stuff is written by professional devs in places like Russia/Asia who are hired by criminal gangs and paid a salary etc to sit and code malware all day! Scary stuff! --edit-- This is the one I was talking about[^] --/edit--
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I watched a good Ted talk on this by Mike Hypponen[^] (I think that's the one, but would advise checking out all of his stuff), apparantly a lot of this stuff is written by professional devs in places like Russia/Asia who are hired by criminal gangs and paid a salary etc to sit and code malware all day! Scary stuff! --edit-- This is the one I was talking about[^] --/edit--
That's the 800 lb gorilla (364kg) in the room that no one wants to mention. The identity theft and malware has gone to organized crime. It's just so easy. THE US banks, etc just don't give a damn unless (a) a penetration is made public and (b) it exceeds their fraud budget. To make matters worse, I'm convinced that the US feds are involved as well.
Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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What a piece of cr.. spyware is. I had a particular nasty one this weekend. "NextCoup". it installs, it registers, it copies files, puts itself in the Chrome exentions, etc... I had to run Spybot, unintall in Programs&Features, remove manually from disc, delete all occurances in the registry, uninstall Chrome and finally reinstall Chrome to get rid of it. The uninstall is also very, very low, because it gives a popup: Do you want to uninstall (large letters). Then a bunch of text and in that text: "Press Yes to uninstall and install another interesting program to help you, ...bla bla bla, click No to just uninstall, press Cancel to cancel the uninstall". I mean I'm pretty good at this stuff (compared to the average user) and even I had trouble getting rid of it. They should find out whoever develops this stuff, arrest them and execute them. (not literally of course)
V.
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V. wrote:
(not literally of course)
I was with you until this bit.
You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)
Publicly horse whipped would be to good for them.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead? Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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What a piece of cr.. spyware is. I had a particular nasty one this weekend. "NextCoup". it installs, it registers, it copies files, puts itself in the Chrome exentions, etc... I had to run Spybot, unintall in Programs&Features, remove manually from disc, delete all occurances in the registry, uninstall Chrome and finally reinstall Chrome to get rid of it. The uninstall is also very, very low, because it gives a popup: Do you want to uninstall (large letters). Then a bunch of text and in that text: "Press Yes to uninstall and install another interesting program to help you, ...bla bla bla, click No to just uninstall, press Cancel to cancel the uninstall". I mean I'm pretty good at this stuff (compared to the average user) and even I had trouble getting rid of it. They should find out whoever develops this stuff, arrest them and execute them. (not literally of course)
V.
(MQOTD rules and previous solutions)Hello V. That stuff can be quite annoying. I haven't heard about "NextCoup" before. How did you find out or tracked it?
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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What a piece of cr.. spyware is. I had a particular nasty one this weekend. "NextCoup". it installs, it registers, it copies files, puts itself in the Chrome exentions, etc... I had to run Spybot, unintall in Programs&Features, remove manually from disc, delete all occurances in the registry, uninstall Chrome and finally reinstall Chrome to get rid of it. The uninstall is also very, very low, because it gives a popup: Do you want to uninstall (large letters). Then a bunch of text and in that text: "Press Yes to uninstall and install another interesting program to help you, ...bla bla bla, click No to just uninstall, press Cancel to cancel the uninstall". I mean I'm pretty good at this stuff (compared to the average user) and even I had trouble getting rid of it. They should find out whoever develops this stuff, arrest them and execute them. (not literally of course)
V.
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Hello V. That stuff can be quite annoying. I haven't heard about "NextCoup" before. How did you find out or tracked it?
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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What a piece of cr.. spyware is. I had a particular nasty one this weekend. "NextCoup". it installs, it registers, it copies files, puts itself in the Chrome exentions, etc... I had to run Spybot, unintall in Programs&Features, remove manually from disc, delete all occurances in the registry, uninstall Chrome and finally reinstall Chrome to get rid of it. The uninstall is also very, very low, because it gives a popup: Do you want to uninstall (large letters). Then a bunch of text and in that text: "Press Yes to uninstall and install another interesting program to help you, ...bla bla bla, click No to just uninstall, press Cancel to cancel the uninstall". I mean I'm pretty good at this stuff (compared to the average user) and even I had trouble getting rid of it. They should find out whoever develops this stuff, arrest them and execute them. (not literally of course)
V.
(MQOTD rules and previous solutions)V. wrote:
not literally of course
Why not? Consider: The life you are born with is yours and yours alone, and you don't know how many hours of life you have. You invest the hours of your life to provide for yourself and others, to buy and to have things which make your life more enjoyable. Then along comes some perfect asshole stranger to whom you have never caused any harm, but who installs a piece of malware on one of your PCs to make your life miserable. To eliminate this problem, you have invest countless more hours of your life purging it from your machine, hours you can never replace. Anyone who will deprive you of part of your life has no respect for your life, and therefore can be assumed to be willing to steal all of your life. That person is a murderer, and you have no moral obligation to respect his desire to remain breathing. Execution is clearly deserved, and every victim has the inherent right to perform that duty on behalf of all mankind. Since such creatures are clearly subhuman, there is no need to be merciful, or swift in performing the execution.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Nice one, :thumbsup::thumbsup: Thx for sharing
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Nice one, :thumbsup::thumbsup: Thx for sharing
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
