Re: Trojan.Delf.BZ
"BoaterDave" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote in
news:en4Loib3HHA.5984@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:
> How can anyone visiting here for the first time have *any* idea that
> they could receive good ........ or bad .......... advice?
By lurking and reading threads. Typically if someone is offering bad
advice, several individuals will chime in and explain why.
> I thought at first that the TechNet Communities must be monitored by
> Microsoft staff and therefore be relatively safe. I'm still not sure
> about that. Having come here (for ease of use, on someone's advice) it
> appears that *no* such protection applies and that it really is a
> 'free-for-all' and is, quite likely, a dangerous place to visit.
The internet in general is a dangerous place, same as anything else. It's
where you go that decides the amount of danger your exposed to.
> This may not have always been so - and I do wish to stress that I HAVE
> received some excellent and helpful advice, much of which has enabled
> me to help myself more and better understand my PC and its' software.
> I have also learnt a great deal about 'malware' and how to deal with
> it.
MalWare is an annoying problem, glad you've learned some about it.
> PCButts1 - some while ago now - explained to me how effective it is to
> run HiJackThis and then copy and paste a specific entry directly into
> Google. Here's an example - O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Adobe Reader Speed
> Launcher] "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\Reader_sl.exe"
I don't mean to discredit anyone when I say this, but what you did is
hardly new.
Google.com provides a very nice text based search engine.
You can find many things depending on what you enter.
> What I have NOT found is other people who are trying to find out who
> *perpetrates* the 'malware' in the first place - no-one seems to care.
> I do!
You haven't looked very hard then. There are people and organizations
which do follow the trends with malware, indicating who's behind it and
what the likely reasons are.
> So, in spite of comments like yours, 'Fitz', and also having been
> 'warned-off'' having contact with PCButts1 by Kerry Brown and David H
> Lipman, I'm grateful for PCB's help. Perhaps he's one of the good guys
> after all, but only experience here will tell. I'm glad I'm not a
> Newbie any more!
I'm not going to try and warn you off, as I don't feel I need to do so.
What I will suggest instead is that you read some information which can
be found on google.com concerning pcbutts. You can makeup your own mind.
Which I suggest you do, before posting support of someone in the future.
You were warned off for a reason, not an alterior motive.