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Radio-Locator Spyware Alert

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JeremyAndrews

Just a heads up, the ads on that site may have some spyware. When I go to Radio-Locator it opens up an installation box that says "Installing Microsoft Office 2000" I don't have a Microsoft Office CD and did not intend to install Microsoft Office at the time of opening the site. I quickely closed to boxes.

There are several spyware programs that disguise themselfs as leget or different programs when they install themselfs onto your computer and I have every reason to believe that this is one of them.

This happened to me twice today.


So you may want to stear clear of Radio-Locator for now unless you have a good firewall.<P ID="signature">______________

AIM: JeremyA1069</P>
 
> Just a heads up, the ads on that site may have some spyware.
> When I go to Radio-Locator it opens up an installation box
> that says "Installing Microsoft Office 2000" I don't have a
> Microsoft Office CD and did not intend to install Microsoft
> Office at the time of opening the site. I quickely closed to
> boxes.
>
> There are several spyware programs that disguise themselfs
> as leget or different programs when they install themselfs
> onto your computer and I have every reason to believe that
> this is one of them.
>
> This happened to me twice today.
>
>
> So you may want to stear clear of Radio-Locator for now
> unless you have a good firewall.
>
a thing to stear away from those spyware's is to get firefox, or a alternative ie browser with a popup blocker<P ID="signature">______________
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> a thing to stear away from those spyware's is to get
> firefox, or a alternative ie browser with a popup blocker

I use Firefox and I'm happy with it. Unfortunately, there are a fair number of site I need that do not play nice with it and I have to switch to Explorer. I hate that. <P ID="signature">______________
"Radio on the Internet is yet another world-shrinking example of what communications analysts call 'death of distance.'" - Tim Jones

<a href="http://saltydog.5gigs.com">
The Salty Dog</a>
</P>
 
Spyware Alert

another "thumbs-up" for Firefox. Superior at blocking pop-ups. Plus, if you run Ad-Aware Personal Edition 1-2x a week, you should be fine.

>
> I use Firefox and I'm happy with it. Unfortunately, there
> are a fair number of site I need that do not play nice with
> it and I have to switch to Explorer. I hate that.
>
> > a thing to stear away from those spyware's is to get
> > firefox, or a alternative ie browser with a popup blocker
 
Re: Spyware Alert

> another "thumbs-up" for Firefox. Superior at blocking
> pop-ups. Plus, if you run Ad-Aware Personal Edition 1-2x a
> week, you should be fine.
>
> >
> > I use Firefox and I'm happy with it. Unfortunately, there
> > are a fair number of site I need that do not play nice
> with
> > it and I have to switch to Explorer. I hate that.
> >
> > > a thing to stear away from those spyware's is to get
> > > firefox, or a alternative ie browser with a popup
> blocker
>
Ad-Aware + Spybot + MS Anti-Spyware combined will catch anything. I haven't had any problems with R-L on either IE 6 or Mozilla 1.7 myself. Perhaps whatever is there is just triggering something you already picked up elsewhere?
 
Re: Spyware Alert

> > another "thumbs-up" for Firefox. Superior at blocking
> > pop-ups. Plus, if you run Ad-Aware Personal Edition 1-2x
> a
> > week, you should be fine.
> >
> > >
> > > I use Firefox and I'm happy with it. Unfortunately,
> there
> > > are a fair number of site I need that do not play nice
> > with
> > > it and I have to switch to Explorer. I hate that.
> > >
> > > > a thing to stear away from those spyware's is to get
> > > > firefox, or a alternative ie browser with a popup
> > blocker
> >
> Ad-Aware + Spybot + MS Anti-Spyware combined will catch
> anything. I haven't had any problems with R-L on either IE
> 6 or Mozilla 1.7 myself. Perhaps whatever is there is just
> triggering something you already picked up elsewhere?
>
I used all those scanners plus did a deep search, found nothing. But thats because I managed to quickly close those boxes.

Click on a Radio-Locator coverage map. See what it does.<P ID="signature">______________

AIM: JeremyA1069</P>
 
Re: Spyware Alert

> Click on a Radio-Locator coverage map. See what it does.
>

I did and got nothing like you experienced; I did get some popup
ads when the map page loaded, but thats all. Clicking in the map
did nothing.

Have you tried this on more than one machine?
 
> Just a heads up, the ads on that site may have some spyware.
> When I go to Radio-Locator it opens up an installation box
> that says "Installing Microsoft Office 2000" I don't have a
> Microsoft Office CD and did not intend to install Microsoft
> Office at the time of opening the site. I quickely closed to
> boxes.
>
> There are several spyware programs that disguise themselfs
> as leget or different programs when they install themselfs
> onto your computer and I have every reason to believe that
> this is one of them.
>
> This happened to me twice today.
>
>
> So you may want to stear clear of Radio-Locator for now
> unless you have a good firewall.
>


Here's something I haven't seen anyone mention... Modify your hosts file, just type hosts into google and you should see several sites that explain what this is and how to obtain a file that you can use instead of the one you have, (they are done for free) and you can add listings to the file yourself for even further protection.

Basically this file tells your computer where a site is hosted at before it does an actual lookup on the internet, by telling your computer in this file that www.scummyspywaresite.com is located at 127.0.0.1, your computer will only look for info from thart site on your system's own internal IP, and logically, if you don't already have the files being searched for in the exact location the web page is looking for on your own system (the odds of that are usually zero even if spyware is installed), it finds nothing and installs nothing. This file is very useful for eliminating advertisements on most web sites.

I go to Radio-locator all the time, and yes, before I changed the hosts file, I had seen spyware installed (this has been the case for a long time now) but since then, I don't even get most of the pop-ups, just an empty window.
 
Re: Spyware Alert

> > Click on a Radio-Locator coverage map. See what it does.
> >
>
> I did and got nothing like you experienced; I did get some
> popup ads when the map page loaded, but thats all. Clicking in
> the map
> did nothing.

Same here. I agree something else is going on with Jeremy's pc.<P ID="signature">______________
"Radio on the Internet is yet another world-shrinking example of what communications analysts call 'death of distance.'" - Tim Jones

<a href="http://saltydog.5gigs.com">
The Salty Dog</a>
</P>
 
This doesn't sound like spyware.

Probably a registry problem on your PC. Something's screwy with the file associations there. You must have some type of file associated with one of the Office programs that shouldn't be. Every time you try to open that type of file, it looks for the Office program, doesn't find it, and prompts you to install it.
 
> This doesn't sound like spyware.
>
> Probably a registry problem on your PC. Something's screwy
> with the file associations there. You must have some type
> of file associated with one of the Office programs that
> shouldn't be. Every time you try to open that type of file,
> it looks for the Office program, doesn't find it, and
> prompts you to install it.
>
Haven't had any trouble accessing that fine web site. Wish they would get their listings up to date but that's another issue.

Explain this one to me. Sometimes when I visiting this awesome web site, I get this: mshtml.dll. A box will come up and will contain those letters, when I check to see what the error is. Also the message will say that Microsoft Internet Explorer has encoutered a problem and needs to shut down, sorry for the inconvience. Then it will give me the opition to report this problem to Microsoft but I haven't even bothered to report it. This XP OS is okay but I hope the next one that comes out, will be even better.

This Computer isn't a year old and already it is beginning to act like it is very old. Even my Norton Security Program is causing my E-Mail and Internet connections to sometimes act up in weird ways, after I update the files that need to be updated for the week and/or day. I have already reinstalled the Norton program, three times already and still have to deal with this problem at certain times.

RDP <><

P.S. I know that new Computer shouldn't have all these problems, right away but this one seems to be working against me. Maybe I should have kept that Apple after all and just replaced the Printer.
 
> > This doesn't sound like spyware.
> >
> > Probably a registry problem on your PC. Something's
> screwy
> > with the file associations there. You must have some type
>
> > of file associated with one of the Office programs that
> > shouldn't be. Every time you try to open that type of
> file,
> > it looks for the Office program, doesn't find it, and
> > prompts you to install it.
> >
> Haven't had any trouble accessing that fine web site. Wish
> they would get their listings up to date but that's another
> issue.
>
> Explain this one to me. Sometimes when I visiting this
> awesome web site, I get this: mshtml.dll. A box will come up
> and will contain those letters, when I check to see what the
> error is. Also the message will say that Microsoft Internet
> Explorer has encoutered a problem and needs to shut down,
> sorry for the inconvience. Then it will give me the opition
> to report this problem to Microsoft but I haven't even
> bothered to report it. This XP OS is okay but I hope the
> next one that comes out, will be even better.
>
> This Computer isn't a year old and already it is beginning
> to act like it is very old. Even my Norton Security Program
> is causing my E-Mail and Internet connections to sometimes
> act up in weird ways, after I update the files that need to
> be updated for the week and/or day. I have already
> reinstalled the Norton program, three times already and
> still have to deal with this problem at certain times.
>
> RDP <
>
> P.S. I know that new Computer shouldn't have all these
> problems, right away but this one seems to be working
> against me. Maybe I should have kept that Apple after all
> and just replaced the Printer.
>
I got this computer in July and managed to keep it spyware free. The only problems I have are programs freezing up.<P ID="signature">______________

AIM: JeremyA1069</P>
 
> > > This doesn't sound like spyware.
> > >
> > > Probably a registry problem on your PC. Something's
> > screwy
> > > with the file associations there. You must have some
> type
> >
> > > of file associated with one of the Office programs that
> > > shouldn't be. Every time you try to open that type of
> > file,
> > > it looks for the Office program, doesn't find it, and
> > > prompts you to install it.
> > >
> > Haven't had any trouble accessing that fine web site.
> Wish
> > they would get their listings up to date but that's
> another
> > issue.
> >
> > Explain this one to me. Sometimes when I visiting this
> > awesome web site, I get this: mshtml.dll. A box will come
> up
> > and will contain those letters, when I check to see what
> the
> > error is. Also the message will say that Microsoft
> Internet
> > Explorer has encoutered a problem and needs to shut down,
> > sorry for the inconvience. Then it will give me the
> opition
> > to report this problem to Microsoft but I haven't even
> > bothered to report it. This XP OS is okay but I hope the
> > next one that comes out, will be even better.
> >
> > This Computer isn't a year old and already it is beginning
>
> > to act like it is very old. Even my Norton Security
> Program
> > is causing my E-Mail and Internet connections to sometimes
>
> > act up in weird ways, after I update the files that need
> to
> > be updated for the week and/or day. I have already
> > reinstalled the Norton program, three times already and
> > still have to deal with this problem at certain times.
> >
> > RDP <
> >
> > P.S. I know that new Computer shouldn't have all these
> > problems, right away but this one seems to be working
> > against me. Maybe I should have kept that Apple after all
>
> > and just replaced the Printer.
> >
> I got this computer in July and managed to keep it spyware
> free. The only problems I have are programs freezing up.
>
Maybe when Microsoft releases their next Operating System, it will be better than XP. Been reading about Vista last night on their Web Site. Once it comes out and when the bugs are removed, I may switch over to it. From what I have read, Vista is supposed to be better than any other OS Microsoft has ever released. I am now checking with an Uncle of mine, to see if I should do it. He works with Computers and will help me when I need it.

I didn't think that a new Computer was to act up, after owning it for about 5 months. Boy was I wrong.

RDP <><
 
> Explain this one to me. Sometimes when I visiting this
> awesome web site, I get this: mshtml.dll. A box will come up
> and will contain those letters, when I check to see what the
> error is. Also the message will say that Microsoft Internet
> Explorer has encoutered a problem and needs to shut down,
> sorry for the inconvience.

Could be a ton of things there. Probably is some software conflict and has little to do with the age of the computer. I'd take a look on Google and Microsoft's website to see if mshtml.dll is causing anyone else problems. Make sure your Internet Explorer is up to date and if all else fails, abandon IE and get Firefox, or reinstall Windows.

Or get a Mac. :)
 
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