Kill Those Pop-Up Ads!

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 11 May 2002 7:20 am

I finally got around to installing
Lavasoft Ad-Aware 5.8. I ran it and it found over a hundred item that it identified as Adware/Spyware. They're now gone!

Great Product!

I got it at download.com

Also FreeRAM XP Lite is a wonderful utility.

Both are Free Downloads and Licences.

Mark Ardito · Post by **Mark Ardito** » 11 May 2002 8:04 am

Joey,

Ad Aware is a great little program. I used to run OptOut which was developed by Steve Gibson at http://www.grc.com he is my hero in the computing world. He stopped his Opt Out and let Lava Soft continue putting out upgrades for AdAware.

For all who are wondering, Ad Aware is a spyware removal application. Here is Steve Gibson's (my computing hero) definition of spyware:

"What is Spyware?

Spyware is ANY SOFTWARE which employs a user's Internet connection in the background (the so-called "backchannel") without their knowledge or explicit permission.

Silent background use of an Internet "backchannel" connection MUST BE PRECEDED by a complete and truthful disclosure of proposed backchannel usage, followed by the receipt of explicit, informed, consent for such use.

ANY SOFTWARE communicating across the Internet absent these elements is guilty of information theft and is properly and rightfully termed: Spyware."

I would recommend going to http://grc.com/optout.htm to read all about it. Big time criminals of this are Real Networks, the makers of Real Player, Comet Cursor and others.

This software really helps the overall security of your PC.

Thanks for posting the info Joey!

I have a ton of things I can recommend, but I can not seem to get it from my brain to the forum to share. Maybe too many hours of sitting in front of a computer!

Mark

Tommy Mc · Post by **Tommy Mc** » 11 May 2002 2:10 pm

I also use Ad-Aware with good results. Another freeware program that I am using is
KillAd.
It is great at eliminating 'pop-ups.' I used to use 'PopUpStopper' but I think KillAd is easier to use. You can get it here: http://wwwwin.wplus.net/pp/fsc/

Joe Delaronde · Post by **Joe Delaronde** » 11 May 2002 6:48 pm

I just installed the Aware software and found 63 spy thingies.
I'm clean now.Thanks for the info.
Joe

Wayne Brown · Post by **Wayne Brown** » 11 May 2002 7:35 pm

gee joey where you been boy ...been running that program for the last 3 years....hehehehe...you should have asked i wouls have sent it to ya...

winston · Post by **winston** » 12 May 2002 6:38 am

I just ran the program and found 135 articles
Can I just delete them? Should they be backed up for any reason? thanks Winston

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 12 May 2002 8:49 am

Joey, I looked for FreeRAM XP Lite on the download.com site, but seemed to only find
RAMBooster. Is this the same thing?

I came up with 587 entries on AdAware. Is it OK to delete the REGISTRY ones? I put them in the IGNORELIST for now. There's about 25-30 of them and a lot are from an old GATOR program. I'm real leery about REGISTRY entries.

ChipsAhoy

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 12 May 2002 10:21 am

You can get FreeRam XP Lite at their site http://www.yourwaresolutions.com/

As far as AD-AWARE goes, delete those Registry Entries! That's where the smart bugs hide.
If that scares you, AD-AWARE gives you the option to back them up so you can restore them later.

Selecting IGNORE tells AD-AWARE to leave these items alone. Only do that if it's something you want.

I killed all of mine, no backup, and I'm OK.

Mark Ardito · Post by **Mark Ardito** » 12 May 2002 6:23 pm

Basically, the registry delete thing just takes out the registry entry to go ahead and spy. Deleting the line is ok, the program still works fine, it just doesn't spy anymore.

Mark

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 13 May 2002 4:59 am

Thanks for those tips Joey and Mark.

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 13 May 2002 4:11 pm

I remember FreeRAM now. I had it on at one time, but I think I had some bugs with it; so I did take it off.
Anybody having or have had problems with FreeRAM?

Kevin Post · Post by **Kevin Post** » 19 May 2002 2:25 pm

Thanks,
Those are great to have.