Re: Trojan.Delf.BZ
Thank you for taking the time and trouble to post your views, Dustin. I will
act on your comments.
Must get around to using another newsgroup reader too!
David
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"Dustin Cook" <spamfilterineffect.see.sig@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9992EC99EC868HHI2948AJD832@69.28.186.121...
> "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.