Windows Vista Spyware.

[starfury1]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

At the moment I can't even browse the internet and burn a DVD at the same time.

I don't do that but I know a lot do and yeah the speeds etc these days it (mostly) shouldn't be a problem.

Still if you could do it before and cant now there is definitely something a miss...
not that I know much of "Ready Boost" (I think its suppose to be with Usb sticks and the likes only...I could be wrong) but were you using that in anyway?
it should just revert back to using the HDD if memory stick is not found.

It definitely sounds like it got its knickers in a knot somewhere.

maybe a fresh install will be the path of less headaches...even thou this does entail all your software to be reinstalled.

[Per Hansson]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

Check if DMA mode is still enabled for your harddrive and CD-ROM's

[gonzo0815]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

I personally would say, your systems is may be low end for going Vista with fun.
Admittedly i personally don`t have any experience with Vista, and i probably would not get some in the near future.

But i would say 1GB RAm is cool for XP, but it`s the minimum for Vista.
For XP an x300 is more then was it needs, but for Vista i think it is not very well suited.
Your CPU ok, not bad, but i think with Vista it could be faster.
From Xp i think it is well known, the the speed will degrade significantly after a few weeks or months of use.
So i would not be surprised, if this is the same in Vista. But may be some more Vista experienced could answer this question better than i.

To expect anything with security from MS i think is a little naive.
The only thing i would expect from MS on this issue, is TCPA or TCG.
And this is sure not to protect the people, then to protect their profits via enforced DRM and to enroll a system, where only big corporates and sure governmental agencies have control, access or knowledge over any pc system of the world.

So how should all the people be convinced to accept such horrific surveillance & control systems, which apparently do not offer them any benefit?

Sure, only by the ongoing plague via trojans, spyware and spam. It is like with the Bush administration, they desperately need terrorists, fear etc. to convince people to accept their removal of freedom rights.

It is no secret, that MS is favoring the annual license model for their products.
But yet they are not able to role it out to the consumer market, as they would instantly loose too much customers due to illegal sw use or by the switch to Linux.
If the participation at the internet would force people to use a TCPA or similar systems, any free software would instantly vanish and illegal copies of MS OS would too.

[gonzo0815]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

Check this out, it summarize it probably better then i could do.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archive...ns_your_c.html

[starfury1]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

from my brief look at Vista yep I think same appies..the more you load the slower it goes and probably the same issues with the build of a crap over time.

Gonzo I hear what your saying and the only way to do it really is "NOT BUY THE CRAP" but people need a easy popular alternative and unfortunately there isn't one yet
linux is getting there but for most its still not a spoon feed OS
(the fact that there are so many heinz varieties of it doesn't help it become popular)

Windows created a standard and now we are stuck with it.
If you remember back to the days of CP\M
(and its 20 different ways of formatting a soft sector floppy based on who build the computer kypro olivetti etc)
and then DOS, IBM gave bill his chance to get us all hooked

I did read one interesting comment re vista and the fact its not taking the world by storm...the comment was windows XP works (mostly) so people are happy and familiar with it. So are not going to open up another set of problems and somewhat learning curve for them selfs

The other side is what doest it really offer that you would say is really needed or a great assert to your every day use..nothing really just prettier

There maybe things in the pipeline and vista will be the foundation on which they run but at this point in time its negatives* far out way it positives to the average user
(*some of which you mentioned,)
its funny, here we are fighting to stop spyware on it
but here we are using a gov/corp friendly spyware OS, go figure
(well the potential is there, now starting to be exploited)

just my thoughts

Cheers

[gonzo0815]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

I think, as long as XP is available and supported, there is no reason to go with Vista.
There is no security improvement, there is no radical design changes witch would make it any safer and there is beyond Direct X 10 no improvement in any resort.

If you wan´t a safe Windows system, then you have to do it by yourselves.
there is no need to by a newer os from MS, as any version from w2k on had anything to make it secure.
You have to learn it, or you have to pay for the assistant of a qualified pro.


I don`t called for Linux in my previous statement, don`t get me wrong.
It is the same as it was with W2k and Xp. I haven`t bothered with XP on my main system before the dust of sp2 has settled.
Of course, i already had an dual boot installation of Windows XP for gaming and learning reasons earlier, but not for anything i depended on.

[thomasb0110]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

Have been getting some pcs at work with Vista on them, not fun. Vista seems to run best with at least 2 gigs of memory installed, and this is for the business edition. Also the Vista Aero theme is a big memory hog, you can try turning it off see link.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/...8&pageNumber=4
Blackviper.com has a good site that explains most of the Vista services, and how to disable them. I have used his site as a guide for XP, but havent tried any of the Vista tweaks yet. As someone stated earlier that with a new OS there is a learning curve.

[stevo1210]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

I was just thinking about how I could make my PC faster in some way without upgrading the CPU and graphics card.... mainly because I don't want to waste my CPU and graphics card as spares.
So, I thought this through for a while but will a new hard drive and another GB of RAM in my PC make a big difference in Windows Vista performance??

I was thinking of purchasing a 320GB Seagate Barracudda 7200.10 SATA II HDD with NCQ and a 16MB cache.
I currently have a 200GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA I HDD with only 8MB of cache.... Windows Vista recommends that I have a SATA II HDD that supports NCQ for faster performance.

About the RAM.... My motherboard is an Intel DP965LTCK with the Intel P965 chipset and supports dual channel mode.... which is the mode it currently runs with 2x 512MB sticks of RAM.

Would it be better to buy 2 sticks of 512MB DDRII 667MHz sticks to make 1GB and achieve top perfomance in dual channel mode or will 1 stick of 1Gb DDRII 667MHz RAM still be able to work in dual channel mode and also achieve the same performance as 2x 512MB sticks??

I read through the manual of the Intel motherboard and it said that it supports something called dual channel memory in "Flex Mode" using three sticks of RAM.... I don't know if that will give me top performance and speed though.... only problem is that it's something that I am not very familiar with so I need some advice on that.

Will buying a new SATAII 3GB/s Hard drive that supports NCQ and some extra RAM for my PC make a difference in performance under Windows Vista ??

Thanks.

[Per Hansson]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

You you install 2x512MB sticks and 1x1024MB stick the system will have better bandwidth only to the first gigabyte of memory

The second gigabyte will be accessed in single channel mode (64 bit vs 128bit)

The user experience for this is negliable really. Atleast it was for me when I ran like this on an old trusty nForce2 mobo...

You could always run 4x512mb sticks, that will give you dual channel speed to all your RAM

[PedroDaGr8]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

Download HijackThis from http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en...ols/hijackthis

and post the log it generates on the forums at www.spywareinfo.com . There is a good change that ad-aware and SpybotSD did not get rid of everything. Spyware these days is getting more and more advanced at hiding itself and preventing you from getting rid of it using an automated scanner. Instead it tends to require a human to parse the logs and come up with a solution, also, tHere are several that love to run in the background and do a great job of slowing things down. My fiancee had one that she got called Vundo, pain in the ass to get rid of. As per spywareinfo.com the people on there (called Helpers or the higher Trusted Assistants or the highest Administrators) are all well trained at spyware removal. I am trying to currently a Helper Trainee and it is honestly very difficult. It isn't just a simple take a quiz get certified, they are very very rigorous on their training. It may take them a few days to look at your log, jsut mentioned that you had spyware, give them a list of the spyware that Adaware, Kaspersky and Spybot found and post a copy of your log and someone will get to you in 1-3 days.

[Logistics]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

AVG didn't detect anything for me. In fact many of the scanners suggested on sites didn't work for me, except this one--go here using Internet Explorer:

http://usa.kaspersky.com/products_se...us-scanner.php

This won't allow you to fix the problem because they want you to buy their software, but it shows you which files are affected so that you can delete them. The reason this is important is that, in my case, a virus had attached itself to a bunch of exe files in my files directory where I save all the stuff I want to keep. It even attached itself to the GMER root detector program I downloaded while having this problem(I also had a Root Kit on my system argh). So I kept reinstalling XP then xfering my files back and BOOM the virus was back because I kept running an infected exe, unknowingly.

[stevo1210]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

I'm going to buy an extra 1GB of RAM for my desktop soon so I can get some performance boost by using 2GB of RAM.

Today I was fed up with Vista on my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop, so I installed Windows XP onto it. Everything is lightning fast.
And at the end of the installation, I only just found out that Dell didn't give me a mediadirect re-installation CD. So I have to wait for it to come through the mail from Dell.
I think it's quite strange because I have ordered the same laptop for a few people and when the laptop comes, the driver/ Windows CD package contents are exactly the same as mine, yet Dell is telling me that it should have come with a mediadirect reinstallation CD.... does that mean that the other laptops I ordered are also missing that same CD????....

Thanks.

[stevo1210]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

I bought the extra 1GB 667MHz DDRII Kingston DDR2 module today. I can see a performance boost when multitasking. My PC also boots a bit faster than it did before.

[b_s_d]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

Suggest you install Sysinternals Process Explorer to track down where the CPU cycles are going. Looks like v11.04 works with Vista. See: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...sexplorer.mspx

They also have a number of other tools that I've found very helpful tracking down problems on XP, but don't know which of these have been adapted to Vista. You can check on their primary site at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...s/default.mspx

Frankly, I'm surprised "Ultimate Vista" doesn't already have these since MS now owns Sysinternals.

[b_s_d]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

Didn't see the free Comodo tools mentioned yet. Just confirmed the the current version of their BOClean Anti-malware works with Vista. You can get it at: http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html

I switched our Windows systems to the Comodo security tools about a year ago and found them to be equal or better for our situation than the 2005-2007 versions of the Internet security packages from McAfee, CA, Symantec, or Trend - YMMV. My only significant complaint is that the file scanning on open/save seems a bit slower than on some of the others.... but my plan for solving this is to buy faster hardware.

I have also gotten good use out of Spybot-SD and continue to use Ad-Aware. For the little or no cost they involve, it's not a bad idea to run a couple different malware tools on a regular basis.

[bgavin]

Re: Windows Vista Spyware.

Here is a Microsoft funny for you, poking fun at Vista.

Link to Vista Spoof