Art Bahrs wrote:
> Hi John and All :)
>     All people should be running something like <PLUG> AdAware from
> Lavasoft (www.lavasoftusa.com) <PLUG> to keep their machines clean of
> 'unwanted' cookies.  DoubleClick is a pain in the yingyang and of no use to
> almost everyone...

While we're at it, everyone should have these in their housekeeping
toolbox (my recommendations, for what little it's worth :-) ):

AdAware:  http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
SpyBot:  http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
SpywareBlaster:  http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html
Registry Mechanic:  http://www.pctools.com/registry-mechanic/
PageDefrag:  http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pagedefrag.shtml

If you should get a virus/worm/trojan/proxy/bot/etc and the free
scanners can't find it, these will help look:

TCPview:  http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/tcpview.shtml
ProcExplorer:  http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
HijackThis:  http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

All are free downloads, but Registry Mechanic does require registration
to get the full repair capabilities (it fixes some things, but only
lists findings of other things in the unregistered version).

And finally, with the prospects of shiny new PCs appearing this holiday
season, combined with the current uninfected life expectancy of an
unpatched windows box exposed to the internet being ~19 minutes (see
http://isc.sans.org), here's "Windows XP:  Surviving the First Day":

    http://www.sans.org/rr/papers/index.php?id=1298

(No financial interest, etc)

Happy Holidays :-)

Jeff

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