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Skriven 2006-02-08 13:27:12 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 9627 av Gary Britt (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: New Gateway Laptop Came With Spyware Pre-installed!!!
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>

PC Pitstop is also spyware removal software. I guess you won't agree with the
first line on their website <g>

http://www.pcpitstop.com/
"Is your PC acting sluggish?"

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I've become somewhat gun shy of the security programs.  Each release of
ZoneAlarm is like playing Russian roulette. I've had PC-Cillin delete vaid
SpyBot S&D files and SpyBot mangle others.  Symantec made my PCs crawl ........

I may actually try the MS security suite offering when it is released later
this year as as I figure I can't mangle my PCs any more than the 3rd party
offerings already have.


"Gary Britt" <email@from_Gary_Britt.org> wrote in message
news:43ea2b75$1@w3.nls.net...
> Yes seems to be diagnostic software, and really is spyware that will kill
> your internet web page load times, but not downloads.  It gets out of the
> way once a download starts, probably to try and fool people into thinking
> the slow page load times are all just their imagination.
>
> Gary
>
> "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:43e9f084$1@w3.nls.net...
>> PC Pitstop seems to be diagnostic software and  it does seem to have a
>> few
>> ex-Gateway people associated with it
>>
>> CEO of PC Pitstop is
>>
>> http://www.pcpitstop.com/about/default.asp
>>
>> Rob Cheng
>> Chief Executive Officer
>> Rob is the former Senior Vice President of Gateway Direct
>>
>> "Gary Britt" <email@from_Gary_Britt.org> wrote in message
>> news:43e993db@w3.nls.net...
>> > About a week or so ago my new laptop that arrived last November began
>> > opening web pages really slowly.  From the connection icon in the
>> > quicktray,
>> > it looked like it was trying to connect somewhere and was having
> trouble,
>> > timing out, and finally would make the connection.  However, pages were
>> > loading 20 or 30 times slower than normal.  I mean that literally.
>> >
>> > Naturally, I began trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with
>> > things.
>> > Started uninstalling software; going back to two different restore
> points
>> > when I knew the damn thing worked properly, then tried winsockxpfix.
>> > Nothing helped.
>> >
>> > Refusing to accept the situation, I kept plugging away, started
>> > investigating all activex and IE plugins and low and behold I
>> > discovered
>> > the
>> > computer came shipped with a spyware program (happily ignored by the
>> > Norton
>> > Internet Security spyware detectors) called PC PitStop.  It took some
>> > doing
>> > but I finally managed to track down and manually uninstall the PC
> PitStop
>> > components, and then re-run winsockxpfix.
>> >
>> > Things are back to normal, but I'm really pissed that a brand new
>> > laptop
>> > from a major manufacturer would come with spyware pre-loaded on
> purpose!!!
>> > Supposedly, to help tech support, but its spyware, spyware, spyware and
>> > tech
>> > support has nothing to do with anything for this.
>> >
>> > I checked the logs for my hardware router, and noted that an IP address
>> > out
>> > of Minnesota was trying to connect (unsuccessfully thankfully) to a
>> > computer
>> > behind the router (I assume mine) on a series of ports in the 65k
>> > range.
>> > It
>> > took me an entire weekend to figure this out and get corrected, plus I
>> > still
>> > have to reinstall a lot of software, that I removed trying to figure
> this
>> > BS
>> > out.
>> >
>> > Gary
>> >
>> > P.S., I've begun switching from Norton AV to the free Avast anti-virus.
> I
>> > like Avast's interface and features, and seems to be better than AVG.
> The
>> > free version does everything but script blocking.  Seems to take less
>> > memory
>> > and work faster than Norton.  It also seems to perform a better scan,
>> > as
>> > it
>> > detected 2 different virii on an older desktop computer of mine that
>> > Norton
>> > happily ignored.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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