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WarSame
Canada1950 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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WarSame
Canada1950 Posts
On October 23 2011 06:14 skyR wrote: I don't believe this is possible, at least not with gmail. Well, I'm using Hotmail, so it might work for that. Any idea for the av? For now I've just removed all of my contacts so they don't get spammed. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
AVG Avast are the only free ones I can think of off the top of my head. | ||
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WarSame
Canada1950 Posts
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renaissanceMAN
United States1840 Posts
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Bulldozor
Denmark74 Posts
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Warzilla
Czech Republic311 Posts
On October 23 2011 06:21 skyR wrote: Microsoft Security Essentials AVG Avast are the only free ones I can think of off the top of my head. Having no antivirus is better than having one of these above.. Except Avast is somewhat decent.. | ||
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Bulldozor
Denmark74 Posts
On October 23 2011 06:48 YosHGo wrote: Having no antivirus is better than having one of these above.. Except Avast is somewhat decent.. Please don't say stuff like this, someone might believe you. You can go ahead and fanboi whatever program you want to use but don't start spewing bullshit in public Thanks. | ||
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WarSame
Canada1950 Posts
On October 23 2011 06:46 Bulldozor wrote: Just change password on a different computer? What do you mean by this? I only have one computer. | ||
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Bulldozor
Denmark74 Posts
On October 23 2011 06:59 Peterblue wrote: What do you mean by this? I only have one computer. Well they access your email because they have your password (most likely via keylogger but not neccecarily) If you change password on a computer that is not affected they will not have the new password and hence can't send spam from your email Then you just need to clean your pc of whatever malware is stealing your passwords and voila. Even if you only have 1 pc you must know someone who will let you use their pc for 2 minutes to change the password. As for removing virus from your computer, that's a whole other topic | ||
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grs
Germany2339 Posts
On October 23 2011 06:48 YosHGo wrote: Having no antivirus is better than having one of these above.. Except Avast is somewhat decent.. These are the times when I seriously would like a report button. Keep away from giving false advice if you do not have any clue at all in tech support. Microsoft Security Essentials is perfectly fine when you have Windows 7, you get it free and it is quite good. | ||
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gruff
Sweden2276 Posts
On October 23 2011 06:48 YosHGo wrote: Having no antivirus is better than having one of these above.. Except Avast is somewhat decent.. You can't seriously believe that? All three is fine and certainly a whole lot better than nothing. | ||
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Skiro
Netherlands87 Posts
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shabinka
United States469 Posts
On October 23 2011 07:21 grs wrote: These are the times when I seriously would like a report button. Keep away from giving false advice if you do not have any clue at all in tech support. Microsoft Security Essentials is perfectly fine when you have Windows 7, you get it free and it is quite good. There... is a report button... I also thought that Avira wasn't bad. | ||
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
On October 23 2011 06:48 YosHGo wrote: Having no antivirus is better than having one of these above.. Except Avast is somewhat decent.. Umm nah at least Avast is good and I've had good experiences with Avira at least in the past If anything, one should avoid the paid ones like Norton and F-Secure. Holy shit have those ruined my computing experience multiple times. | ||
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jacosajh
2919 Posts
I mean yeah, if you're the type of person who randomly clicks on bright flashing links and opens .exe files that are "supposed to be" .avi, then yeah, you probably need anti-virus. I mean really, you've won a brand new car, go ahead and click on that link. A Nigerian prince really is sending you an e-card... don't think, just open it. Microsoft really is giving you $200 for every person you forward that e-mail to. But first, you have to install this new version of IE. Wtf are you waiting for? | ||
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Xapti
Canada2473 Posts
However, if you just change password like you normally would (or even just do it on the same PC), the problem might return later due to the keylogger still operating, so it would be best to remove the keylogger first. Even without removing the keylogger, you can try to obfuscate your new password by trying unicode characters in the password (some keyloggers might not follow it), copy-pasting some characters, using left and right arrows (and/or home/end) while typing the password, and using the mouse to click to different parts of the password while typing it. The same should be done with e-mail (could generally just copy-paste it), especially alternating between e-mail and password while typing them. If you do all that, the main way it would then only be able know your new password would be via packet monitoring, which I think is very possible. I'm not sure how many packet monitors exist as opposed to keyloggers. Not to say that a keylogger still couldn't figure it out if it monitored all keys and all clicks, and the clipboard, and then inspected by a human, but I think that's unlikely. | ||
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Legatus Lanius
2135 Posts
On October 23 2011 17:53 jacosajh wrote: What's wrong with him voicing his opinion about anti-virus software? I mean yeah, if you're the type of person who randomly clicks on bright flashing links and opens .exe files that are "supposed to be" .avi, then yeah, you probably need anti-virus. I mean really, you've won a brand new car, go ahead and click on that link. A Nigerian prince really is sending you an e-card... don't think, just open it. Microsoft really is giving you $200 for every person you forward that e-mail to. But first, you have to install this new version of IE. Wtf are you waiting for? ive had virus alerts from clicking pictures found via google images (whether there was a virus or not i have no idea.) just sayin, you can still get viruses without running any exe files or other obvious stuff. anyways, by far the best protection ive ever had was with noscript. i still use mse for scanning received files and stuff like that, but it makes web browsing pretty stress-free | ||
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GloryOfAiur
United States127 Posts
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