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No tools are yet updated to kill it
Manual removal is a long operation not for the faint at heart
Involving first the usual use of HJT and SBSD
Then going in safe mode, going in regedit and REGEDT32
And performing multiple tasks........
And more...
However the list of operations to perform the removal can be found on the web
But so far it did not work
If removal does not work that thing will mutate, creating a new dll and more keys than the first time as well as location changes
It seems that every attempt makes the next one harder to perform
A site mentions, “short of reloading OS............”
In the meanwhile I will load in his machine firefox or opera and wait for a better killer plan
Any input
Regards
Henry
Henry
[owner edit] Sorry I did not mean "yelling at you" by duplicating "very well" which is a typo- deleted the one too many-
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[edited by: henry0 at 12:21 am (utc) on July 24, 2004]
I am thinking about switching my company to it
Our head IT guy just switched the company to firefox. Had to leave IE on the computers due to the fact that some sites just will not function without it. He took the shortcuts off to IE, so it's more effort to get to, if you really need to use it.
So far (after one week), it seems to be working well. Supposedly, even the US detp. of homeland security just recommened dropping IE as a browser.
From what I have read, IE has an inherant security flaw that allows spyware and adware and some viruses to load themselves. The less used browsers may also have flaws but since they are not so widly used, they are not targeted. I mean, why waste your time bypassing the checks on a system that is only used by 1% of the population when you can go after something that used by 90+% of the population.
From what I have read, IE has an inherent security flaw that allows spyware and adware and some viruses to load themselves. The less used browsers may also have flaws but since they are not so widely used, they are not targeted. I mean, why waste your time bypassing the checks on a system that is only used by 1% of the population when you can go after something that used by 90+% of the population.
I agree switching “today” sounds a good idea if not the only panacea
Yes when the proportion will be reversed we might and we certainly will see attacks targeted to “other browsers”
Although it cannot resolve the real problem:
One) network small corp. IT setting the correct rules
Two) employees correctly trained in security
Today I called the Network head honcho guy and stated that I needed the admin PW to enter the “all powers” regedit area and was served right away! Remember I am the outsider web person :)
Namely active-x conrols. You will not have to worry for now about drive-by downloads with firefox.
"I am thinking about switching my company to it"
Same here...and have switched the more savvy users from the work pods already and am hoping they can help drive enthusiasm to take the full fledged change very shortly to everyone else.
"Are there any drawbacks I should consider"
the built in popup blocker will block popups from even legitimate sites... you need to add them to a white list. It's worth it. I have come across a few industry specific sites users need that will not deliver a page to anything but internet explorer... no problem, just I can't delete the IE permanently like I planned.
If you get the qute theme and cute menu extension, firefox even looks a whole lot like IE. I also like the tabbed windows feature. There is a lot to users on. The exec's... I demo'ed a packet sniffer to them to show where the bandwidth was really going and why folks can't print etc. sometimes due to infested browsers broadcasting excessively around the network... during this particular demo, approxmately 30-40% of the packets from one subnet was one IE user who was infested with spyware. It's a no brainer save for the minor support issues to the differences.
I am not trying to trigger a browser discussion but to find a possible solution to helping my client
removing the bad stuff.
by advance thanks
Henry
regards
Henry
PS)
regarding my nasty one
I received a new set of removal instructions
will try them Monday and report
if it works I will post the info
