"Nick Skrepetos" <nskrepetos@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> Andy wrote:
>> I downloaded and update AVG Free Anti-Spyware and done a full disk
>> scan
>> (Scan all files) and it found spyware and I chose to delete all.
>> Immediately
>> afterwards I downloaded SpyBot Search & Destroy 1.4 and updated it
>> and done
>> a full scan and it came up with another load of spyware ones that
>> weren't
>> found on AVG anti spyware. they were Jupilites, Microsoft
>> windows.activedesktop, Microsoft.Windows.Explorer,
>> Microsoft.WindowsSecurityCenter.taskManager and SpySheriff.
>>
>> Now why can you not seem to entrust one anti spyware program to get
>> rid of
>> ALL spyware without having to check with another spyware program? -
>> and why
>> were these spyware not picked up by AVG anti spyware program in the
>> first
>> place?
>>
>> Does anyone know?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andy.
>
> Andy,
>
> What were the actual items shown for Jupilites and SpySherrif? Were
> they files or registry keys? The other items really aren't threats -
> Spybot just flags those indicating you may have Active Desktop
> enabled,
> etc.
>
> As for why a single anti-spyware program can't detect
> everything......the answer is that the number of spyware infections
> coming out daily is astounding and it is, and always will be
> impossible
> for a single product, from a single vendor to catch everything on a
> given day.
>
> For instance, we receive thousands of unique samples per week in
> addition to the thousands we harvest in-house - every other company
> is
> harvesting and receiving their own set of samples - and many of the
> samples are different that we receive - so there is really no way
> for a
> single company to catch everyhing. Thus the requirement of using
> multiple layers of anti-spyware and anti-virus solutions.

Amen brother, testify.

I first realized that this was the case when I received two virus
laden emails in one day. I was using Norton 2002 at the time, it came
free with hard disk the place I worked for bought, and I was almost
sure the attachments were viruses even though Norton 2002 didn't
complain. I submitted them and they came back as nasty.

If I can get that sort of thing on dialup(all I had at the time)with
and address that was fairly new I figured that things were getting a
little crappy on the net.

"How did you keep from getting infected?" you might ask.

By not being clueless enough to read html email.

Is it fair to say that the best two single things you can do to
protecte youself are turn off reading html email and use a browser
that doesn't say Internet Explorer?

Inquiring cmsix wants everyone's opinion.

cmsix

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> Nick Skrepetos
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> http://www.superantispyware.com
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