Trojan horses on the rise

[nfotxn]

Everyone using a modern browser ought to check themselves for parasites. A friend had some installed on ie5.5 on winme, it dragged his performance into the ground.. not that winme wasn't doing that already.

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[danlmarmot.livejournal.com]

The evil Bargain Buddy was installed stealthily when I installed Net2Phone. I kept on wondering why I suddenly started getting popup windows when I closed a web page. Evil!

Two other things you can do:
- Check your startup items. There's a small control panel from
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml that works well. What each item is is described here http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm
- Block entries in your DNS hosts file. This is a text file (open it in Notepad) that maps names to IP addresses. Add names that you just don't want your computer to go to. For example, I added the following:

208.176.12.74 ads.x10.com
208.176.12.74 ad.doubleclick.net
208.176.12.74 media.fastclick.net
208.176.12.74 global.msads.net
208.176.12.74 ad.iwin.com

And now I see happy marmots instead of silly ads for X10 crotchcams--and don't worry about nasty tracking cookies from doubleclick.

Thanks for the link!

Third flower, north-west wall.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip, I've been meaning to modify my hosts file for a while now. Just never got around to it.

And those x10 crotchcams are for home surveilance darnit! ;)

[kj.livejournal.com]

Holy crap has this helped my system immensely! Thank you, Dan and Brodie!

[cub4bear.livejournal.com]

Brodie, I'm using Internet Explorer 5.1.2 and I checked myself for parasites. I think I have tapeworms. What should I do?

[danlmarmot.livejournal.com]

If you want need someone to check for parasites, I can play Scoutmaster... it'd be just like the good old days in the Boy Scouts!

[bigrock.livejournal.com]

horses on the rise.. mmmmmm

oh wait, that's different...

nevermind