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Originally Posted by Makaveli213  Osiris is right. Go thru his guide and that is the correct way to get rid of spy ware. Plus your thoughts about spy ware overwriting itself. Way off. Spy ware is constantly changing. that is the only way it can survive. It it never changed it would be caught by all the spy ware filters out there. So you wouldn't have to worry about it being over-written on your hard drive as a new file would appear. |
Okay maybe you didnt read my post correctly or understand it. Let me expalin thi further.
There are spy ware fileters out there. Like Ad Aware or spybot search and destroy. Now you have these on your PC and they run. they catch the spyware and remove it. Now if you didnt run them the spyware you download would
NOT, i repeat
NOT, be the same exact file. Why you ask? Well because if it was the same exact file it would be
CAUGHT by the Ad Aware or Spybot filters you run. So having the file on your PC even if it is just a blank .exe file
WILL NOT PREVENT YOU FROM GETTING NEW SPYWARE AS THE"Y ARE NOT THE SAME!!!
Spy ware is constantly changing. It has to bypass these filter that people run so unless you plan on creating blank .exe files with every filename you can think of and them some to prevent spyware from downloading you will never stop it.
NEVER.
So your trick no matter how weel thought out it may be will never work as Spyware is ever changing not only in file but in names. You will be infected with a new one before you could remove it and replace the file with a blank .exe file.
Do you get it now? Honestly? I mean there is no way. You would ahve at least 1 Billion blank .exe files to try and stop just part of the amount of spyware that is out there. Run the guide and the filters. That is the
ONLY, i repeat
ONLY, way to stop it. Your method will not work.