Joe wrote: [snip] I know what Spyware is. I've got a block in my HOSTS file on the PC - Gator seems to download most of its stuff from the Gator website. Stop it downloading that crap and it doesn't even get past installation. Use Mozilla and its ActiveX control won't even start, so Gator won't even try and install in the first place. IIRC. I use AAW a lot - I give my PC a scan every two months. As for my Acorn RiscPC, well. I don't think there's much spyware for that, do you? As for viruses, "T3" is the only real nasty virus that exists for RISC OS - the rest are just annoyances. T3 destroys data - Extend, Icon and the like just sit around wasting memory. I seem to remember the Icon virus was written by a student at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QEGS) in Wakefield, England... I think his nickname was "Smigg" or something like that. Later. -- Phil. philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/

I'm hearing that Ad-Aware is past it's prime. For Anti-Spyware info the site to check is http://www.spywareinfo.com/ I believe Spybot is now the preferred method. http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=download I REALLY recommend installing the following Registry Hack: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm#IESPYAD This blocks most spyware sites, and there is a version that you can put in /etc/hosts on Unix. Once I installed this it took care of all the Spyware problems I was having. Proxomitron is great for taking care of preventing popup windows, and depending on how it is configured can speed up surfing by blocking most ads. http://www.proxomitron.org/ Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

Rumor has it that Merle K. Peirce may have mentioned these words: There's two programs that will do that: Ad-Aware (latest version is 6.0) -- There's a freeware & a paid version... http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ Spybot Search & Destroy -- another good spyware proggie that can get rid of new.net & downloadware (ones that Ad-Aware 5.83 couldn't kill)... http://security.kolla.de/ To bring this back ontopic, tho: lavasoft has been around since the Commie64 days, and a) still has a lot of that software, and b) released it to freeware as well... you can download it there... HTH, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers zmerch(a)30below.com What do you do when Life gives you lemons, and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????