Paleo Pete
10-12-2003, 09:06 AM
I'm not sure just how long this one has been around, but the earliest references I've found so far are from August, so it's not that old as far as I can tell...but a heads up in case some of you aren't aware of it...
Orbit Explorer Toolbar (http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/Xupiter.html) info at Doxdesk, and more Here (http://www.safersite.com/pestinfo/x/xupiter.asp) seems to be a recent variant of Xupiter's garbageware, but apparently not as tedious to manually remove, although I took the easy way out and ran Adaware with the newest reference files... :D
I missed a setting on my laptop, surfed around for some song lyrics a few nights ago, and next time I boot it up, BOOM...here sits a browser hijacker...been about 3 years since I saw one of those on any of my machines. Anyway, 30 seconds after the first pop-up I hit Google to find out just what that was that was running in msconfig that wasn't there a few days ago...
The latest Adaware 6 reference file will remove it, Hijack This of course finds all or most of the registry entries etc, and I'm sure spybot S&D should do a number on it, although I've never used it.
The second link above is to Pest Patrol, which I don't know a thing about. Anyone have some reliable info on it? I haven't surfed around yet, (don't have lots of time) but plan to check into it, but wanted opinions here too.
EDIT:
By the way just for grins, check out this Adaware log in the first post of this Lavasoft Forums (http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showtopic=6279) thread. I think that's the most scumware I've ever seen in any one computer, and I've seen quite a few KaZaA infested machines...
Orbit Explorer Toolbar (http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/Xupiter.html) info at Doxdesk, and more Here (http://www.safersite.com/pestinfo/x/xupiter.asp) seems to be a recent variant of Xupiter's garbageware, but apparently not as tedious to manually remove, although I took the easy way out and ran Adaware with the newest reference files... :D
I missed a setting on my laptop, surfed around for some song lyrics a few nights ago, and next time I boot it up, BOOM...here sits a browser hijacker...been about 3 years since I saw one of those on any of my machines. Anyway, 30 seconds after the first pop-up I hit Google to find out just what that was that was running in msconfig that wasn't there a few days ago...
The latest Adaware 6 reference file will remove it, Hijack This of course finds all or most of the registry entries etc, and I'm sure spybot S&D should do a number on it, although I've never used it.
The second link above is to Pest Patrol, which I don't know a thing about. Anyone have some reliable info on it? I haven't surfed around yet, (don't have lots of time) but plan to check into it, but wanted opinions here too.
EDIT:
By the way just for grins, check out this Adaware log in the first post of this Lavasoft Forums (http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showtopic=6279) thread. I think that's the most scumware I've ever seen in any one computer, and I've seen quite a few KaZaA infested machines...