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04-16-2002, 04:35 PM
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Alexa Now Installs With MS Update !
Ran my weekly scan of AdAware last night and find the Alexa spyware (Trojan) and could not figure out where it came from.
Only one prog has been added to this box in 6mths except for MS
updates. I figured nahhhhh, not Bill G...... Emailed the programs developers who swore it wasn't them.
Decided to check a several boxes I just built ( running W2K, and XP) clean installs, new hd's, only added service packs and windows updates. Put AdAware in 1st and bingo there's Alexa.
How much info does Bill need ?
This one has pissed me off.
OK Rant over. But MS is definitely going overboard now.
Ha !......Just got email from the progs developer who say's it's all over several new boxes they built with only OS installed...guess whose OS it is ???
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04-16-2002, 04:57 PM
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I just ran Adaware on my XP system and noticed that Alexa was in there.
Who the hell do they think they are to install that s!@t?  | |
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04-16-2002, 05:06 PM
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This "Alexa" is new to me...first off, where do I get Adaware and what exactly is Alexa???
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04-16-2002, 05:08 PM
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Alexa is a spyware program
Here's the link to the company that produces Adaware. http://www.lavasoftusa.com | |
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04-16-2002, 05:10 PM
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Thank you!
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04-16-2002, 05:13 PM
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You're welcome.
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04-16-2002, 05:23 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ft. Walton Beach, FL
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Ok, here are my results...
I don't remember putting WebHancer anywhere on my system...but I just read that it may also be Spyware??? Look at my snapshot please...
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04-16-2002, 05:30 PM
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I just ran Adaware again and it was in German! WTF?
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04-16-2002, 05:31 PM
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I changed it back to English and it opened in German again, I had to change it back 3 times before it worked.
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04-16-2002, 05:33 PM
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Thanks, I run AdAware all the time, But I havent ungraded recently. I just upgraded and found alot of gator stuff, Some how it keeps getting installed. One day I checked and it was running takeing up 29mb of RAM.
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