Ok sorry for being an unhelpful zealot.
On my W2K box I use Norton Personal Firewall and make sure the settings
are ultra-paranoid. Set it to alert you any time an outbound port
connection is started on your box - it's interesting to see what apps
try to connect out from your box ... and tell Personal Firewall (or
whatever you use) to block those outbound attemptions permanently.
That, and a good router protecting your various ports from inbound
traffic, will probably make you feel a hellofalot better.
Good luck!
dave
acre wrote:
quoted 50 lines welcome to the internet. you probably have a dozen of these applications
>welcome to the internet. you probably have a dozen of these applications
>running on your machine at all times. i'm personally very bitter about all
>these apps, and i've found my way to kill most of them. grab yourself an
>app called "ad-aware" first of all. very good for cleaning most of this
>spyware off your machine. as far as this microsoft one goes, remove
>"qtmtask" from your startup - keeps it from launching when you boot your
>machine... i personally use IBStartup Editor to kill everything i don't
>like. makes for a nice/quick startup now. then things like zone-alarm are
>a good idea to block any of these spy apps from accessing your internet
>(although i think some have found a way around zonealarm). it's really sick
>and sad that people can get away with these spy apps. i want to find the
>gator folks and pummel until i can pummel no more, and then... i'll pour sea
>salt on their pummel wounds.
>
>right, hope that helps
>jeremy
>acre
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Dooley" <dooleyc@firstcharter.com>
>To: <idm@hyperreal.org>; <microsound@hyperreal.org>
>Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 1:09 PM
>Subject: [idm] please help
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>
>http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/29/1254230.shtml?tid=109
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>how the hell do you get all this crap off the computer!!!
>
>this is sick and i believed i did install this 1 month or so ago.
>
>help, as i am about to drive over bill's face with a tractor.
>
>d
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