[ale] OT: Infected Winbloze machines

Zyman, Andy zymana at hra.nyc.gov
Thu Jun 20 14:51:05 EDT 2002


run ad-aware.... You will find lots of interesting things on your machine.
Plus get rid from _ALL_ p2p - Morpheuos, Kazaa etc. Install Kazaa lite. And
sleep well.
Plus i would also recommend to put firewall on Your win comp.
AZ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cfowler [mailto:cfowler at outpostsentinel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:57 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] OT: Infected Winbloze machines
> 
> 
> Well.  I;m starting to suspect Kazaa.  I went to luch today and cam
> back. On my work machine was 2 porn pop-ups.  I had just logged in
> before leaving and nothing was running.
> 
> I found 3 programs.
> 
> 1) EzSearch Bar
> 2) n-CASE
> 3) n-CASE
> 
> Now I do not know whow these progras go installed without my prior
> approaval but I think Kazaa did it.  Is there a way to 
> protect from this
> infection?
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
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