Is it proven clean ?
-Larry
> > Sure has been a tough download. Anyone know if a bittorent is
> > availabe? (not you Eldred hehe)
> > Mitch
> Well, I'm using bittorrent to dload the new SCC mod and it's using
about
> 1/6th of my cable's dload capacity. I average now over 250kbs with a
> good host and with bittorrent, I'm getting approximentally 50kbs.
> BT is not jumping up and exciting me yet.
> dave henrie
There are any number of clients to choose from, I've been using 3.2.1b CVS
experimental, and to date nobody's haxxored my PC, or stolen my bandwidth.
cheers
John
Spyware/Adware is something that impacts me every single day at work. I
spend 30%+ of my support time trying to remove this dreadful garbage from
users machines, and it never seems to end. At 2+ hours each (and even them
some end up needing a re-image), it's a tremendous waste of resources that
could be directed towards issues that _really_ need attention.
The Bill past by the Senate this week is all fluff. Like the Can-SPAM act,
it feels like it has pressure from the Direct-Marketing-Association all over
it.
It will do nothing. It was a waste of our tax dollars.
-Larry
> Open source products don't tend to contain spyware. Correct me if i'm
> wrong, i've never seen any.
Smaller software writers have been selling their souls to the devil and
including this garbage in their installers lately. It's become far worse
over the last 6 months or so.
The average users computer I clean has over 300 exploits on it. It's a
dreadful mess.
Those of you who have not done it lately, or never at all, run CWShredder,
SpyBot and Adaware (be sure to update each after installation) and see what
you come up with. I bet over half of you are astonished at what you find.
-Larry
> > What is the Spyware status of Bittorrent?
> > Is it proven clean ?
> > -Larry
> There are any number of clients to choose from, I've been using 3.2.1b CVS
> experimental, and to date nobody's haxxored my PC, or stolen my bandwidth.
> cheers
> John
Open a cmd window (DOS Box) and type in NETSTAT.
Look at the open TCP/IP connections your system has established. If you
can't identify them, it's likely a tunnel that a piece of Spyware has
established and you have NO idea what kind of information is being sent from
your computer.
-Larry
> Smaller software writers have been selling their souls to the devil and
> including this garbage in their installers lately. It's become far worse
> over the last 6 months or so.
> The average users computer I clean has over 300 exploits on it. It's a
> dreadful mess.
> Those of you who have not done it lately, or never at all, run CWShredder,
> SpyBot and Adaware (be sure to update each after installation) and see
what
> you come up with. I bet over half of you are astonished at what you find.
> -Larry
> > > What is the Spyware status of Bittorrent?
> > > Is it proven clean ?
> > > -Larry
> > There are any number of clients to choose from, I've been using 3.2.1b
CVS
> > experimental, and to date nobody's haxxored my PC, or stolen my
bandwidth.
> > cheers
> > John
Cheers,
uwe
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Thanks
Jay J
PS: Folks what's all this bit torrent stuff? Anyone care to provide a simple
explanation and pro's/con's of using a tool like that?
> > Sure has been a tough download. Anyone know if a bittorent is availabe?
> (not you Eldred hehe)
> > Mitch
> I can post the update (about 150 meg) on a binary group if there's a need.
> Alanb
> Thanks
> Jay J
> PS: Folks what's all this bit torrent stuff? Anyone care to provide a
> simple
> explanation and pro's/con's of using a tool like that?
So once again if someone from the group who has it could care to get a
torrent client and seed the file we would all have it in no time....
Thanks
>> > Sure has been a tough download. Anyone know if a bittorent is
>> availabe?
>> (not you Eldred hehe)
>> > Mitch
>> I can post the update (about 150 meg) on a binary group if there's a
>> need.
>> Alanb
