Kazaa – No 1 Pest
Checkout Kazaa Rates as Worst Pest on CA’s Spyware List. An interesting read.
A few weeks ago we assisted a customer in getting rid of a number of Spyware, data miners and other pests from their system. It now appears that they believe us when we say don’t use Kazaa or anything similar if you value your system security and your own privacy.
December 7th, 2004 at 11:02 pm
Indeed, a worthy posting. In addition to the obvious need for the usual raft of protection provided by anti-virus products and firewalls, I have enjoyed considerable success with PrevX, as recommended by RSL and Zen Internet.
PrevX sits client-side, monitoring sensitive areas of the operating system. It’s kind of like a client-side operating system firewall – it pops up whenever a web installation take place, whenever the registry is updated with known and unknown installers, etc. It has a useful feature called “trusted install” which shuts it up during the installation of a known to be good application.
If you ever wonder just how nasty stuff gets onto your PC, PrevX will show you just how it happens…simply by double-clicking or pressing OK!