Webmasters that create sites to distribute Spyware

[sarettah]

Originally posted by Billy@Apr 17 2004, 08:39 AM
OK simple question for you computer people.. how do you know if you have spyware ??

Some things to watch for:

1. Getting popups from sites such as Yahoo or Google. They don't do popups. You get popups there. You probably have adware/spyware.

2. You go to search in yahoo or any other search page and you end up at a different page. You probably have adware/spyware.

3. Your homepage changes on you without you telling it to. You probably have adware/spyware.

4. New icons that you do not remember being there show up in your systray. You probably have adware/spyware.

5. Your computer starts taking longer than normal to boot up. You probably have adware/spyware.

6. Secure pages that you normally go to (bank accounts etc) do not accept your username/password combination. You probably have adware/spyware.

7. You get popups after you close your browser. You probably have adware/spyware.

8. You get errors that say stuff like "could not connect" when you aren't trying to connect to anything. You probably have adware/spyware.



Serge, the email going out could be a symptom, unfortunately many programs have their own email engine so your email program will not see the email going out and it won't show up in your sent messages box. The only way to see the email going out is to monitor port 25.