BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  toolbar virus??? Goto page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7  Next          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Non-Technical View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message William Meyer Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:01 pm    Post subject: toolbar virus??? My notebook has recently acquired an IE toolbar that behaves like a virus. It has a search box, and a number of buttons, an attractive design, and the button selections change in context of the page being viewed. A bright idea on someone's part, no doubt. On the toolbar menu, there is a selection for PileAce, and that turns the toolbar off or on -- but when turned off, it is turned on again as soon as you select a new page. The thing that makes it like a virus is that I didn't install it, and haven't been able to discover how to uninstall it, or permanently disable it. Interestingly, on all the search engines I have tried, PileAce appears to be unknown. Has anyone here seen this thing? -- Bill -------- "I cannot under-take to lay my finger on that article in the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the object of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison Back to top Martin Waldenburg Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:07 pm    Post subject: Re: toolbar virus??? http://www.newsforge.com/software/04/07/01/123233.shtml Martin Back to top Iman L Crawford Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:11 pm    Post subject: Re: toolbar virus??? "William Meyer" <wmeyerNO (AT) SPAMsbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote in news:40e594f3$1 @newsgroups.borland.com: Quote: Interestingly, on all the search engines I have tried, PileAce appears to be unknown. Has anyone here seen this thing? Get adaware, spybot, and CWSShredder. Run all of them to clean up your machine and then ditch IE. Even the homeland security department has recommended not using it anymore. -- Iman Back to top Kurt Bilde Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:36 pm    Post subject: Re: toolbar virus??? Iman L Crawford wrote: Quote: Get adaware, spybot, and CWSShredder. Run all of them to clean up your machine and then ditch IE. Even the homeland security department has recommended not using it anymore. Well Phishing-attacks can occur in Mozilla (<1.7), Mozilla Firefox (< 0.9), Opera, Safari and Konqueror. Guess that one have to use common sense these days! -Kurt Back to top Iman L Crawford Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:41 pm    Post subject: Re: toolbar virus??? Kurt Bilde <kub (AT) sam (DOT) sdu.dk> wrote in news:40e59d30 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com: Quote: Well Phishing-attacks can occur in Mozilla (<1.7), Mozilla Firefox ( 0.9), Opera, Safari and Konqueror. Phishing? IE will allow installation of software without you even knowing about it. Several popular websites were recently compromised and IE exploits installed on their servers. -- Iman Back to top Msangali Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 6:19 pm    Post subject: Re: toolbar virus??? I'm browsing only with Firefox 0.91 now, and I fully recommend it. Regards, Msangali "Kurt Bilde" <kub (AT) sam (DOT) sdu.dk> wrote Quote: Iman L Crawford wrote: Get adaware, spybot, and CWSShredder. Run all of them to clean up your machine and then ditch IE. Even the homeland security department has recommended not using it anymore. Well Phishing-attacks can occur in Mozilla (<1.7), Mozilla Firefox ( 0.9), Opera, Safari and Konqueror. Guess that one have to use common sense these days! -Kurt Back to top Kevin Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 6:36 pm    Post subject: Re: toolbar virus??? William Meyer wrote: Quote: My notebook has recently acquired an IE toolbar that behaves like a aaaayyyyyyyeeeeee....... Back to top Kevin Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 6:38 pm    Post subject: Re: toolbar virus??? Kevin wrote: Quote: aaaayyyyyyyeeeeee....... Get Mozilla Firefox rather. :-) Even Microsoft's Slate is recommending it: http://slate.msn.com/id/2103152/ Back to top Kevin Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 6:41 pm    Post subject: Re: toolbar virus??? Kurt Bilde wrote: Quote: Well Phishing-attacks can occur in Mozilla (<1.7), Mozilla Firefox ( 0.9), Opera, Safari and Konqueror. Guess that one have to use common sense these days! Well... It is still true to say that with IE you have to be much more careful than with Moz. There are far fewer exploits that target Moz. The US government, Slate, eWeek and Wired magazine (those were just the articles that I noticed, there may be more) are all recommending that you switch to Firefox and dump IE. Cheers, Kevin. Back to top Eric Schreiber Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:10 pm    Post subject: Re: toolbar virus??? Kurt Bilde wrote: Quote: Guess that one have to use common sense these days! It's always been a handy tool to use. I used to run a public access BBS for about six years. I've been playing on the net for probably a decade, the last several years of that with a full tiem broadband connection. In all that time, I've had not a single virus or trojan infection on any of my machines. Basic commen sense coupled with up-to-date A/V software and a firewall seems to have served me pretty well. Despite the fact that I use OE and IE exclusively. -- Eric Schreiber Kobayashi Software www.kobayashi.com Back to top Thomas Miller Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:46 pm    Post subject: Re: toolbar virus??? I really like http://www.pestpatrol.com/ for this. Work great. Iman L Crawford wrote: Quote: "William Meyer" <wmeyerNO (AT) SPAMsbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote in news:40e594f3$1 @newsgroups.borland.com: Interestingly, on all the search engines I have tried, PileAce appears to be unknown. Has anyone here seen this thing? Get adaware, spybot, and CWSShredder. Run all of them to clean up your machine and then ditch IE. Even the homeland security department has recommended not using it anymore. -- Thomas Miller Delphi Client/Server Certified Developer BSS Accounting & Distribution Software BSS Enterprise Accounting FrameWork http://www.bss-software.com http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbexpressplus Back to top William Meyer Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:55 pm    Post subject: Re: toolbar virus??? On 07/02/04, Martin Waldenburg said: Quote: http://www.newsforge.com/software/04/07/01/123233.shtml Not even remotely interesting. I use Netscape 7 for most work, but there are numerous sites that are partly non-functional on anything but IE. I've heard claims that NS is the most standards compliant -- I wouldn't know. What I do know is this: a browser is just a tool, and I use a tool to get a job done. NS can't do some jobs, so IE can't be removed. -- Bill -------- "I cannot under-take to lay my finger on that article in the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the object of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison Back to top William Meyer Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:57 pm    Post subject: Re: toolbar virus??? On 07/02/04, Iman L Crawford said: Quote: Get adaware, spybot, and CWSShredder. Run all of them to clean up your machine and then ditch IE. Even the homeland security department has recommended not using it anymore. I use Spybot, I will get the others. I cannot ditch IE; there are a number of sites that I need access to that are not responsive to any browser but IE. I'm not in it for a cause, nor for any religious zeal -- a browser is just a tool, and whether the fault lies in NS or in the sites in question matters not, as I need to use them for business purposes. -- Bill -------- "I cannot under-take to lay my finger on that article in the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the object of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison Back to top William Meyer Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:58 pm    Post subject: Re: toolbar virus??? On 07/02/04, Kevin said: Quote: Get Mozilla Firefox rather. :-) Even Microsoft's Slate is recommending it: http://slate.msn.com/id/2103152/ Matters not, if it fails on some of the sites I *must* visit for business. -- Bill -------- "I cannot under-take to lay my finger on that article in the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the object of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison Back to top Kevin Guest Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:07 pm    Post subject: Re: toolbar virus??? William Meyer wrote: Quote: Matters not, if it fails on some of the sites I *must* visit for business. Like? In any case... it's not like you have to get rid of IE when you use Firefox most of the time. It's not a big deal to use IE occasionally when you really have to. After using Firefox for a while I guarantee you that you will start to prefer it (tabbed browsing is really great). If you do web development you'll also prefer it because there are lots of enhancements that are geared to developers. What it comes down to is this: * The more people use Firefox the more web site will care about complying with web standards. There are so many hacks on web sites out there just to try and get the desired results with IE- it supports W3C standards really badly. Cheers, Kevin. 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