Im infected by spyware....xp sucks!!movin2Vista!

[ava]

FUCK U BOTH

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[john doe by choice]

Man you need a hobby.

[ava]

get your own thread if you want the last say??

[john doe by choice]

Actually, since my last two posts before this were quoting you, you actually had the last say, and anyway, that's not how you treated my thread when you came in it talking smack without instigation (which makes you a hypocrite)...technically, tho, these are abletons threads, since it's their forum, which means no one has the right to a "last say" above them. Technically speaking.

[ava]

You sound so stupid...

[john doe by choice]

Do I sound as stupid as this:

Im infected by spyware....xp sucks!!movin2Vista!

Or maybe this:

FUCK U BOTH

Perhaps this:

World Inventor Of Lighting In Music Tracks

Do you think I sound as stupid as this:

you couldnt fix two pieces of lego together.

or this:

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or this:

Whatever the case, I'm not as stupid as someone who attacks someone else in that persons thread and expects to just get away with being an asshole, I'm not as stupid as someone who claims to be the "World Inventor Of Lighting In Music Tracks" but is immature enough to be picking fights with strangers for no reason, and I'm sure not stupid enough to be doing all of that from a profile directly connected with something that could be a lucrative business.

[ava]

I take it your a student

[john doe by choice]

I take it your a student

That's what my profile here says - and?

[ava]

I take it your a student

That's what my profile here says - and?

And.... in about 10 years time your learn not to take life so sereously.
But anyway, ill let you have the last say...

[john doe by choice]

I take it your a student

That's what my profile here says - and?

And.... in about 10 years time your learn not to take life so sereously.
But anyway, ill let you have the last say...

Who said I was taking this seriously? The other thing I'm not taking seriously is your "ten years" comment, since you have no idea who or how old I am, although, maybe in ten years you'll have matured enough to have a decent sense of humor, since it doesn't show from you here and now.

I was merely making a point about going into someone else's thread and talking shit to them unprovoked, which is what you did to me - no one else here gets that treatment from me except you because that's how you treated me - getting defensive about getting what you give doesn't make you smarter or more mature than me, or anyone else. Maybe you should think about that before picking a fight with someone over nothing.

[leedsquietman]

Vista will probably not improve your situation. And even if it does help here, it brings a whole new set of problems and issues to consider (like will it have drivers to support your hardware, and more).

It might prevent some spyware installing automatically on your machine (or it might not). It might request for a permission first, if you're lucky.

You can totally surf with your DAW on win xp sp2 or sp3, just make sure you have a good firewall and avoid surfing porn or downloading crappy free stuff like ecards and emoticons off the net. Use Opera or Firefox as your browser (or Safari for windows if you must). Avoid IE.

I have not had spyware on my computer for 3 and half years. I do run a security suite (ZoneAlarm) and when I use my DAW I turn off the wireless network and shut it down for maximum DAW performance, an easy task. I also have Spysweeper with active shields and have had a couple of warnings but nothing malicious in nearly 4 years.

[ava]

Vista will probably not improve your situation. And even if it does help here, it brings a whole new set of problems and issues to consider (like will it have drivers to support your hardware, and more).

It might prevent some spyware installing automatically on your machine (or it might not). It might request for a permission first, if you're lucky.

You can totally surf with your DAW on win xp sp2 or sp3, just make sure you have a good firewall and avoid surfing porn or downloading crappy free stuff like ecards and emoticons off the net. Use Opera or Firefox as your browser (or Safari for windows if you must). Avoid IE.

I have not had spyware on my computer for 3 and half years. I do run a security suite (ZoneAlarm) and when I use my DAW I turn off the wireless network and shut it down for maximum DAW performance, an easy task. I also have Spysweeper with active shields and have had a couple of warnings but nothing malicious in nearly 4 years.

It's only an old pc that was infected and this is the first time it's happened and have been on the net for over 10 years. My new machine is used for DAW and building my lighting project and i will NEVER connect it to the net.. This old pc was my new pc before It went bang when was using it with a smoke machine and the moisture sucked it's way trhrough the power supply and processor fan which ive since repaired. (Be careful using pc's near smoke machines )

It's been over a year since iv'e had a pc on the net, i have xp with service pack 2 but somehow the firewall got turned off. Ive since formatted my drive and all is ok now. Did you know you can get spyware infection just by visiting a webpage?, it's true, a buffer overrun by an image/photo file.

Anyways just thought I would apologise to the forum for this pointless thread, I was pissed off because of this spyware infection, though im not apolgising to "john doe by choice" as the chap just won't give up!

[leedsquietman]

yes I know about buffer overruns and everything else but surfing trusted sites and keeping your self secure is fine. I regularly run various checkers to ensure I am clean and check registry and backgorund programs/services. All clean.

My web surfing is strictly bank site, live forum, Dmusic, cubase.net and recording.org plus email with Thunderbird. If you are careful there is no reason to pick up infections. You can also turn off javascript or flash etc if you are really worried.


Although I do agree with you that if you can afford 2 computers or more, that you can keep one for email, surfing and run the higher performance one as your DAW and stay offline.

[3dot...]

...stop downloading porn on your audio machine...

also..

a good habbit is to run 'spybot'+antivirus scan... at least once a week

[Martyn]

Spyware's a bit of a no-brainer to get rid of. Prevention's better than cure here though, you always find that it's your own stupidity that's let it in in the fiirst place.

NEVER run Internet Explorer or Outlook express, Always have a good firewall and Antivirus (just in case you double click that dodgy email attachment that came with the wonderful offer for cheap viagra). NEVER USE LIMEWIRE or use cracked software!! If you can't afford much, just buy one good audio program and use freeware plugins (you music will be better off for it) and use open source software for everything else, it's good enough (sometimes better) for most things you need a computer for.

However, if you are suspicious that the normal (Ad-Aware/Spybot/etc) programs haven't got rid of everything then go to Majorgeeks.com and get a little program called HijackThis. http://www.majorgeeks.com/HijackThis_d3155.html
Post the resulting analysis file and have somebody advise you as to what's nasty and what's not and HJT will simply remove it. There are lots of other good tools there for all sorts of things, as well as loads of advice, it's a great site.

The best defense by far though is to dual boot into a good easy Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Suse and use that for all your every day correspondence etc and never connect your windows install for anything except software authorisation.

m