Whoa: Ad-Aware often causes more harm than good, as it has its own
inbuilt spyware. I discovered this while trying out PestPatrol, a
competitor and, by far, much superior.
Brian
Ed Valentine wrote:
> Hey Ed -
>
> Welcome to the Wonderful World of Internet Paranoia! After having a
> "worm" zip right past my antivirus program last Fall and start chewing
> up my hard drive, I am now trying to be very-y-y careful.
>
> Since I hooked up to cable broadband several months ago, my cable modem
> goes through my router first (hardware firewall) before my PC. Then I
> have a software firewall on the PC. Further, I now scan all my emails on
> my ISP's server before I download them to my computer. How's that for
> paranoia? The only email I really trust is from TechNet because Keach
> and the IPC folks do a good job of screening. Some of these hackers out
> there are really smart.
>
> Oh, by the way, a lot of those little spyware programs can be cleaned
> off your system using Ad-Aware from lavasoft.com. It's freeware and does
> a really decent job of finding those little "unknown" spy programs (not
> cookies) that get downloaded to your machine without your knowledge.
>
> Ed/
>
>
> Edward J. Valentine
> Electronics Manufacturing Solutions
> 5702 Myakka Court
> Raleigh, NC USA 27616-3243
> Phone: (919) 270-5145
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> www.ems-consulting.com <http://www.ems-consulting.com>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ed Popielarski <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 9:59 AM
> Subject: [TN] Quickbooks and Big Brother
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was working near my laptop yesterday when I noticed the "in use"
> light on my telephone line 2 was on. As I was looking at it, it went
> off and I wondered what exactly just happened?
>
> I discovered a sub-program in Quickbooks called QBDAgent that had
> executed a call through the modem without "asking me"! I looked it
> up using Yahoo and read commentary from several IT types that this
> program "phone's home" to report itself to it's makers, apparently
> to impede software piracy. There is a .log file associated that
> records it's activities which can only be accessed by turning off
> the QBDAgent executable via ctl/alt/del. The only way to
> de-activate the .exe is to use a firewall or pull the modem plug.
>
> I'm not a particularly paranoid type, but it unnerves me that my
> accounting software is under someone else's control!
>
> Any comments or suggestions are encouraged.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ed Popielarski
> QTA Machine
> 10 Mc Laren, Ste D
> Irvine, Ca. 92618
>
> Phone:949-581-6601
> Fax: 949-581-2448
> Cel: 949-337-2578
>
> WWW.QTA.NET <http://www.QTA.NET>
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