Pest patrol is far and away the best. Well worth the 20 dollars for the
full version. It will also monitor activly for new intrusions. Haven't had
spyware since. It also works well with the Zone Alarm Pro firewall, another
try-ware program I bought --same company. That and Norton Anti-virus, and I
sleep mutch better at night. (Well, if I actaully slept that is.)
Steve M
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Ellis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 07:06
Subject: Re: [TN] Quickbooks and Big Brother
> 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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