I should get something for spyware, Or is defender good enough?
I use AVG free for antivirus, It seems to be pretty good.
Picked up all the trojans I tried to sneak past it anyway
(so did defender)
After someone obtained my wife's credit card number and bought themselves $900
worth of stuff with our cash (we got it back), I did some research on spyware trojans etc.
For those of you who, like me didn't realise exactly how nasty these things are...
Basically if someone gets a trojan onto your system, They can browse all your files on any drive, delete them copy them or whatever,
log all you keystroke in real time or stored in a file and emailed to them.
Edit you registry, See what windows / applications you have open, Take snapshots of your screen and have them sent like a movie, tap into your microphone, webcam, Basically anything they like
.
These can be freely dowloaded by anyone, So can most viruses, as well as the source code.
Heck.. there are even nice friendly communities out there that will help you write your viruses if your having trouble, god bless em'
The good news is that most antivirus programs will pick these up.
The bad news... undetectable 'new' versions can be purchased from the developers.
Most of you are probably aware of this stuff, but I wasn't!
Have a nice day
Jeremy
Linear Mode
October 2008
