AOL Hijacks Broswers!

[Strygun]

haha...

I was running a program called AdAware ( which can be found at www.lavasoftusa.com ), which scans my system for things like this:

From the AdAware Site
With its ability to comprehensively scan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known datamining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware will provide the user with the confidence to surf the Internet knowing that their privacy will remain intact.

and guess what it found:

http://staff.planetside-universe.com/strygun/aolhijack.jpg

[Squeeky]

:no:

[Searo]

Hey! I've got that same program. I ran it the first time and found like 155 Spy-Ware Programs.

Yikes. :eek:

[r3d]

AOL sucks anways. >:|

[Ginzue]

Just got that program, checking right now =).

[Strygun]

well I don't use AOL, but it was there when I got the new version of AIM.

[Hamma]

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[simba]

:confused: :confused:

[Onizuka]

aol sucks.

[�io]

Yeah lots of programs will appear there, more than likely aol made it there because it was a) a tracking file or b) some stupid thing like the gain tool bar and crap like that.

Oh and FYI people make sure you check for updates everytime you ran Ad-aware. I once did the test and without the update it found 20 or so, got the update, ran again and it found another 100 or so. :)

[Strygun]

Originally posted by �io
Oh and FYI people make sure you check for updates everytime you ran Ad-aware. I once did the test and without the update it found 20 or so, got the update, ran again and it found another 100 or so. :)


hehe yup... this is the latest version + updated before I scanned =)

[aiwest420]

:rofl:

you know you're a newb when you still use AOL!

[Strygun]

Originally posted by Strygun
well I don't use AOL, but it was there when I got the new version of AIM.

[Recster]

only 52 files found. Which is better? Spybot search and destroy or Ad-Aware?

[aiwest420]

spybot search and destory, hands down :)

[Strygun]

I use them both. Spybot really looks for programs mainly, and AdAware looks for cookies and reg entries and the like.

Use them both, I have, and Spybot found some that AdAware didn't, and vice versa.

[EineBeBoP]

AIM sucks, get trillian :thumbsup:

[Indecisive]

i hate trillian i hate spyware.

I got deadAIM

You dl aim, then you install the deadaim program and it kills all the spyware and crap

[Recster]

only thing about DeadAIM is that costs money to dl

[shinken]

Originally posted by EineBeBoP
AIM sucks, get trillian :thumbsup:

trillian is great, i have friend on all services so good for me + can use IRC

[EineBeBoP]

Originally posted by shinken
trillian is great, i have friend on all services so good for me + can use IRC

pretty much same and, i get no adware from it.

no adware at all in fact.

[JonnyK]

i use trillian for everything, but i switch to msn6 for webcam usage