[WinPartners] popups

[Stephen Dowdy]

I've been using AdAware for some time now and it works well.

In addition, I use Spybot.

http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=download

This software can find spyware on your system and remove it... and can 
immunize your system so that known spyware can not be installed without you 
knowing it.   When a known product (gator, doubleclick, etc) is attempting 
to write cookies to your machine, spybot will intercept them.  You have 
options to ask for the cookies to be accepted or you can tell it to ignore 
all of them.  They provide updates similar to a DAT file for virus 
protection so that as new things hit the Internet, spybot can catch the new 
things.

AdAware only finds things once they are on your system... Spybot prevents 
them from even getting onto you system.  It is freeware (although donations 
are welcome).   I've been using it for several months.   I have not 
installed it to all my machines in the office, although I am considering it 
at this time.

For AdAware, the free version works well, although some features are only 
available if you pay a license.  Spybot is free although they would like 
donations.   I'm wondering if MIT might consider making a nice donation on 
behalf of MIT for Spybot and see about a license for AdAware.

At 10:56 AM 9/16/2003 -0400, Tim Brennan wrote:
>Hi Dave:
>
>As a first step I would recommend downloading /running a  program to 
>detect/remove "spyware" (advertiser tracking components) from the PC. Ad 
>Aware is a good one.   http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
>
>This should get rid of the most -- if not all -- pop ups.  [Tip:  Run Ad 
>Aware regularly to keep your PC spyware free.]
>
>You can also download/install a pop up blocker from 
>http://www.download.com -- just type pop up in the download.com search engine.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Tim
>
>At 09:45 AM 9/16/2003 -0400, Dave Broderick wrote:
>>Signficant Other started getting pop ups. She says she was not even on a 
>>browser; she was doing Comcast email using Outlook, and the pop ups kept 
>>coming. Is there a fix for these?
>>
>>David J. Broderick
>>djbroder at mit.edu
>>         Audio Visual Project Technician
>>         MIT AV 617 253 2808
>>         FAX 617 253 5945
>>         <http://web.mit.edu/djbroder/www>http://web.mit.edu/djbroder/www
>>
>>
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