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From: securesdotcoms at hotmail.com (Joseph Pierini)
Subject: Tools for checking for presence of adware remotely

If I meet the sons-of-bs that program and distribute these spyware
applications I will do bad things that I shall feel cross and sorry about in
the morning, but only very slightly...

Suggestion, anything you do run, run it in safe mode. The little buggers are
savvy enough to use dll hooking techniques to hide from the OS. I'm
beginning to regard them as dangerous and difficult as a root kit. I'm not
aware of any network based tools, although you could script something in GFI
NSS and scan your network. I find it safer to assume that having been
connected to the Internet, they must be infected.

I use:
Hijack This!
CWShredder
AdAware

Without getting into Microsoft bashing, bearing in mind that the outrageous
behavior of that near monopoly keeps me employed through their incompetence
and I am really not qualified to do anything else and certainly don't have
any grand aspirations to do anything socially beneficial, consider rolling
out alternative browsers. Mozilla or Opera work, and have such far reaching
and insightful features that truly show the authors "get it" and that might
be enough to keep the unwashed masses of end-users from whining about how
it's different and they might have to learn something new. God help them, in
my day we had to use 1200 bps modems dialing BBS systems using kermit if we
wanted our porn...spoiled brats...

Best regards,

Some guy who thinks he knows a thing or two...

>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone out there know of any tools available to probe network
workstations for the presence of adware/spyware?
>
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