P2p
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8350 Registered: Dec-04 | what the hell is p2p networkiong? my virus program keeps blocking it over and over and over and over it is getting so damn annoying. every 5-10 seconds it pops up saying it has blocked it. I already went into my control panel and deleted the program but it keeps coming up how do I get rid of this? it is only on my laptop not on either of my desktops. |
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Gold Member Username: Alias747Eclipse Ti, MN Post Number: 1788 Registered: Apr-05 | Limewire, bearshare, kazaa, Bittorent etc. Those are P2P networks. If you want it to go away just tell the windows firewall or your virus protector firewall to allow it. Annoying crap, hence the reason I don't use that junk. |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8352 Registered: Dec-04 | I dont either! I dont have any of those. should I still allow it? what is it? |
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Gold Member Username: Van_manBoston South, MA Post Number: 1527 Registered: Mar-06 | no, do not allow it. Someone is trying to get into your PC. Virus program is doing its job by blocking it. Find out what its associated with and delete the program. You must have a program cause its trying to get to it. Get Adware and run it, Get Spybot and run it. Open your task bar and see what applications are running. You should be able to identify the program there. |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8359 Registered: Dec-04 | ok I have run a full virus scan and a syware scan and came up clean. I looked it up and it said it is adware. It said to delete it go to control panel, remove programs and find p2p and remove it. I did that and it is still coming up. do you think I need to restart for it to take effect? what is a good free adware site? I have mcafee virus and spyware but not adware. |
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Gold Member Username: Alias747Eclipse Ti, MN Post Number: 1789 Registered: Apr-05 | Like marc said, the 2 best adware programs are Adaware and Spybot. Download these, update them to the newest definitions and do a full system scan with both. http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/select_your_product.php http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html |
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Gold Member Username: Van_manBoston South, MA Post Number: 1529 Registered: Mar-06 | google Spybot search and destroy its free google ad-aware from lava soft Ad-aware 5.0 free McAfee doesnt work all that well for these. Again get those 2 programs and run em. I ran McAfee and it found nothing. I then ran spybot and got 28 hits then ran Ad-aware and got another 9 hits. You will be shocked at what it will find. Do it and then run at least once a week. |
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Gold Member Username: Van_manBoston South, MA Post Number: 1530 Registered: Mar-06 | Note. You need to run em both cause they look for diffrent things |
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Gold Member Username: Alias747Eclipse Ti, MN Post Number: 1791 Registered: Apr-05 | ^^^ Beat you to the punch with my links marc, HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH JK bro.  |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8361 Registered: Dec-04 | holy toledo batman!! I am not even done with the first scan and it is at 171 items found lol |
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Gold Member Username: Van_manBoston South, MA Post Number: 1534 Registered: Mar-06 | My wifes lap top, from the factory, never even online, set it up went and got those programs and it found a bunch of stuff. Manufactures bundle it in with other programs to track your viewing/buying habits. |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8363 Registered: Dec-04 | thats the same thing with me, my laptop is fairly new, within 3 months. I have yet to scan my desktops |
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Gold Member Username: WingmanaliveNj US Post Number: 2243 Registered: Jun-06 | Aol is notorious for their BS. The first dell I bought had Aol on it. First mission was to delete it. 6 months later my credit card was charged the $29/mo fee Aol charges for it's internet service. I was like "HOLY FUCKTARDS!!!" Called them up and they said Aol came with the pc free for 6 months, then the credit card used for the PC purchase was to be used as payment for the Aol. I thought to myself "I never signed up for Aol" Well if you read the microscopic print buried in the middle of your Pc purchase agreement..... To make matters worse, they said they couldn't accept a termination over the phone, it had to be in writing, and could take 6-8 weeks to process the termination. Now I'm fit to be tied. After all the deleting of Aol from my Pc, and going through the bs of cancelling the service I never requested, I still have those G@ddamn renewal programs that keep popping up. Aol is the worst by far in this tactic and it sickens me that so many people still use it. It's crap like this that give Aol a bad name. http://ebaumsworld.com/2006/07/canceling-aol.html |
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Gold Member Username: AdddisorderWest palm, Florida Post Number: 2502 Registered: Jan-06 | thanks for those links its helpfull |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8364 Registered: Dec-04 | Wow Paul I have never seen so many faces in a single post lol PS I quarenteened 199 addwares. 170 of them were like you said Marc tracking programs. |
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Gold Member Username: WingmanaliveNj US Post Number: 2246 Registered: Jun-06 | Aol will do that to ya. |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8394 Registered: Dec-04 | yeah that is kind of rediculous! |
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Gold Member Username: Basshead86FTW Post Number: 9639 Registered: Aug-05 | AOL is the anti-christ |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8463 Registered: Dec-04 | I just did my desktop and between teh 2 of them I had over 400 hits!!!!! damn man these programs are good. thanks again |
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Gold Member Username: Van_manBoston South, MA Post Number: 1560 Registered: Mar-06 | Do you notice any diffrence in the speed of your pc? |
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Gold Member Username: WingmanaliveNj US Post Number: 2371 Registered: Jun-06 | Not all of those hits are viruses. Mostly spyware and tracker programs. Some even come hidden in your browser programs that you don't know about. Sometimes I'll be sitting at my computer, not doing a d@mn thing and my activity light on my dsl modem is flashing like a mother. I think to myself, "what the fack is going on!" |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8464 Registered: Dec-04 | well after I scanned with both of them I defregged and cleaned my disk space so I deff notice a difference |