re: malware/greyware infection
Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 6:30 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by elmoticky
(134 messages posted)
You are right Steve. When I was toying with the
smilies, fungames and other stuff in funwebproducts
I got three malware/greyware viruses trapped into
the Restore files which I could not get deleted by
the trend Micro scan. So when I learned from ancien
how to remove all this stuff off the restore files, I
just stopped using all those traps. However, I note
when I drop the menu in my websearch tool bar
there is an extensive list of options that one can chose to open. I was wondering
if even if I do not use this tool bar -- but yet open a program on the list from
another place -- might it come back to mywebsearch tool bar as a virus and infect
it? I do
not think of these things until its too late sometimes.
But I guess my old WinMe just hasn`t got the protection it should. This might sound
crazy, but I even uninstalled my Norton Internet Security 2005
about two years ago and have never experienced
any serious problems heavier than these pesky bugs
on mywebsearch tool bar. I guess because I just
do reading(websites/forums) and write on WORD, I
do not feel the need for pouring expenses where I
don`t think urgent...Steve, it is educational interacting with you as I said, thanks
for the time you
take to respond...Have a nice weekend...PS Having
installed Firefox and abandoning IE, I had no use for
Norton, so I removed it.
On Friday, July 24, 2009 at 5:06 pm, Steve wrote:
>funwebproducts or smileys central are generally considered undesirable, along with
>the mywebsearch, so many of the Spyware, and Antivirus Products target them as Bad,
>and try to remove them.
At least you know how the questionable files keep
>showing up in your scans, since you seem to be knowingly installing them.
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