Thank you. My fast Internet provider is Comcast ( http://www.comcast.net/chsi.html ). My internet connection is through the TV cable. Most of the times I run as user "mauede" ...very raraely I need to turn to "root" .. I do that if I need to install/uninstall something. My browser is Netscape 7.2 which occasionally marks as SPAM messages that I get ... but I haven't found out yet which criteria it uses to do so. In fact it calls spam what actually is importatnt to me. My Internet provider does have anti-virus and anyi-spam products that can be downloaded for free but they are specific for Windows. Sorry for my ignorance ... what is a "a rootkit hunter" ????? Regards, Maura peter Nikolic wrote:
On Sunday 03 Oct 2004 05:40, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
It's well known that Linux is not affected by any of the viruses that catch Windows as soon as the computer is turned on ... Nevertheless Linux is affected by spyware. My computer is unfortunately a victim of this form of advertising although I've been running SuSE since I bought it 3 years ago. I'd appreciate some help to get rid of these parasitic processes dwelling in my computer. Thank you in advance.
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Well now there's a first .
I have been running Suse since 5.2 solidly with no Spyware or anything problems .
What are you getting what browser are you using what is your internet connection who is your ISP what are you running as ie root or user ..?..
There are some extreemley annoying adds on some web pages that pop up new windows well you can stop those in your browser .
Do NOT blindley accept coockies i do not care what people claim about them they are a BIG pain in the rear end and site have to beg to get on onto this machine if it ain't from the site i am on then it's good night Vienna no chance , Run a rootkit hunter at regular intervals prefereably from an READ ONLY Source .
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I have just installed Adblock on my main machine in Mozilla 1.7.3 and it works a treat blocks those ULTRA annoying microslops adverts dead in the water no sites named cus i have just had a run in with one site ( you should have a choice of allowing or not those insults to your senses) i dont care Who pays to place them they should be context sensative(SP) and i dont care who dont like the idea .
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Pete .