Author Topic: AdvWare.Gator : please help me! (Read 12554 times)

softwareguy · « **Reply #15 on:** August 19, 2004, 10:23:52 PM »

lee16:
By blocking the possible entry ways for viruses/malwares, you could stop almost all malwares from getting into your system.

bob3160:
The reason why I pointed out "malware" detection in avast! is because I want to keep my computer clean of programs as much as possible.
And by using the existing avast! detection engines, avast! wouldn't change a lot except the addition of the malware provider which allows the end-user to disable malware detection.

lee16 · « **Reply #16 on:** August 20, 2004, 01:03:34 PM »

softwareguy

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lee16:
By blocking the possible entry ways for viruses/malwares, you could stop almost all malwares from getting into your system

Thats my point, i want to try and stop all malware (immposible) so im sure there is some on yours and eddys machine(s) but you just don't know about it, have you tryed scanning for any to confirm this?.
Another point, these settings/protection where done by you (humans) which means it cannot be perfect, there is always someone smarter then you.

--lee

softwareguy · « **Reply #17 on:** August 20, 2004, 09:48:48 PM »

lee16:
Yes, I have scanned my system and it always came up clean.
After scanning my system, I revert my HDD back using GoBack so I don't have any extra softwares installed on my system.

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Another point, these settings/protection where done by you (humans) which means it cannot be perfect, there is always someone smarter then you.

Yes, that's always someone smarter than me, but then those "smarter" people just uses different tricks to trick users to infect their system with malware. I also agree with you that security settings are never perfect, but these settings could save yourself from most cases of malware. For example:
1. Disable JavaScript <script>SCRIPT</script>
2. Disable ActiveX <object>OBJECT</object>
3. Disable Cookies for 3rd party sites.
4. Disable Un-Necessary Services in Windows.
5. Do not open any attachments from ANYONE unless you know 100% exactly what attachment you are opening.
6. Try to use web-based email rather than a software email client.
7. Install a hardware/software firewall to stealth your computer.
8. Try avoiding downloading free softwares unless you know what they contain and malware free. (Trust is very important.)
9. If possible, do a analysis on what you install on a Virtual Machine or a machine that you no longer use.
10. Install an up-to-update antivirus software on your computer.

These are just examples to stop some malwares from getting into your system. As Eddy mentioned, a lot of these are common-sense and that they could prevent most cases of malware from getting into your computer.

It doesn't matter how smart programmers write their malware... It's how you prevent them. For example, there's no way for a human to execute JavaScript without a capable JavaScript engine. Even if programmers encrypt their JavaScript to stealth their code, it makes no difference because the browser will not execute the code if you disable JavaScript completely.

In some cases, where prevention is not effective, such as Windows vulnerability. You will have to think of workarounds to prevent this problem. Or apply patches from the Microsoft website to keep your system from being exploited.

bob3160 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 20, 2004, 11:43:21 PM »

softwareguy
Are you aware that as of right now, GoBack is one of the programs that has a conflict with SP2?

lee16 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 21, 2004, 12:22:20 AM »

Softwareguy

I do most of them things and more, i personaly have a clean system, the only people who do infect my system are my mum/sister ect who don't know what there doing and complan is there are comfiminations poping up.
But just becuase i never directly infected my machine, doesn't mean it can't get infected.

--lee

Eddy · « **Reply #20 on:** August 21, 2004, 12:34:28 AM »

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Are you aware that as of right now, GoBack is one of the programs that has a conflict with SP2?

Isn't this the other way around? GoBack was working beautifully. MS (sp2) changed things. So is it a fault of Roxio (GoBack) or MS?........ I go for the last option.

bob3160 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 21, 2004, 01:12:13 AM »

Eddy,
Iwasn't paying a blame game. All I was doing was pointing out the fact that if you update to SP2 you might have a problem with GoBack and you should keep that fact in the back of your mind.

softwareguy · « **Reply #22 on:** August 21, 2004, 04:33:49 AM »

Same here, GoBack is working beautifully without problems on a clean install of SP2.... What conflicts does it have? $:-\$

-lee16:
Make them limited accounts lol!

Staind · « **Reply #23 on:** August 21, 2004, 07:25:39 AM »

I believe, last time I checked Goback was removed from the list.

Nope, I'm wrong. Still there.

Sorry.

softwareguy · « **Reply #24 on:** August 21, 2004, 08:11:16 AM »

I wonder what conflicts they are referring when they said GoBack is going to have issues with SP2.

It's not that GoBack does anything more than store changes and reverting changes... $:-\$

MS: If you install this program, you receive the "DRIVER_OR_IRQ_NOT_EQUAL" error every time your computer starts.

Well, no such error on my system.
Maybe because 1. I have a 32 bit processor. 2. I can't have NX enabled. 3. I have the Pro version.

Eddy · « **Reply #25 on:** August 21, 2004, 11:28:29 AM »

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DRIVER_OR_IRQ_NOT_EQUAL

This is a very common error and mostly related to driver problems. In rare cases it is a hardware failure.

softwareguy · « **Reply #26 on:** August 21, 2004, 09:51:19 PM »

GoBack2K.sys?

I think GoBack uses this driver to save all changes made to the GoBack Buffer.