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A cool site for internet explorer users to check for spyware in their browser is and.doxdesk.com , who provide a javascript parasite detection script available for free use.
The script will run as soon as the page begins to load , and you must have activex and javascript/active scripting enabled in your browser and firewall for it to work , it will take a few seconds and report your results, i think people should visit this site at least once to get checked.
You can also find a large amount of helpful information about how and where spyware comes form and how to avoid and detect it with links to many of the top anti spyware sites.
it probably wont detect all things like newest versions of the current CWS trojan that is rapidly being upgraded , but you are likely to find a lot of the most common hijackers and spyware, i sent my sister here to get her computer checked and she was only using norton interent security at the time , a positive id of Hotbar and a few other toolbar BHOs that were tagging along helped me convince her to install spybot search and destroy.
Browsers that dont support javascript will not work , but they are safer from being hijacked in the first place.
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Detection script
Your browser has not been checked for parasites, because JavaScript is disabled.
For technical reasons, the automatic-detection feature on this web page can only work with Internet Explorer on Windows, when "Active scripting" is enabled and "Download signed ActiveX components" is not disabled. If you are an IE/Win user, you can turn JavaScript on (temporarily is probably best) by going to Tools->Internet Options->Security->Internet Zone->Custom Settings and setting ’Active Scripting’ to ’Enable’ or ’Prompt’. Then reload the page
Your browser has not been checked for parasites, because JavaScript is disabled.
For technical reasons, the automatic-detection feature on this web page can only work with Internet Explorer on Windows, when "Active scripting" is enabled and "Download signed ActiveX components" is not disabled. If you are an IE/Win user, you can turn JavaScript on (temporarily is probably best) by going to Tools->Internet Options->Security->Internet Zone->Custom Settings and setting ’Active Scripting’ to ’Enable’ or ’Prompt’. Then reload the page
The Parasite Detection Module
Many web users unknowingly have unsolicited commercial software installed on their computers.
This can cause system instability, add unwanted advertising, spy on everything one does on the web, or compromise security.
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What are parasites?
‘Parasite’ is a shorthand term for “unsolicited commercial software” — that is, a program that gets installed on your computer which you never asked for, and which does something you probably don’t want it to, for someone else’s profit.
All the parasites I currently know about are only compatible with Windows, and some only affect the Internet Explorer browser. The script on this site — when it is run in IE for Windows — can detect many of them. But not all, for tedious technical reasons.
‘Parasite’ is a shorthand term for “unsolicited commercial software” — that is, a program that gets installed on your computer which you never asked for, and which does something you probably don’t want it to, for someone else’s profit.
All the parasites I currently know about are only compatible with Windows, and some only affect the Internet Explorer browser. The script on this site — when it is run in IE for Windows — can detect many of them. But not all, for tedious technical reasons.
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If you run a web site, some of your users may be seeing advertising links and pop-ups on your pages that appear to be from you, but aren’t; some programs spy on information entered into your forms (even ‘secure’ ones). If you want to help stop this and warn people visiting your sites about the problem, this script can do it.
parasite.js can be linked to your pages with one simple line of HTML. You don’t need to draw attention to it: added to a page, it will sit quietly having no effect until viewed by someone with one of the known parasites installed. When this happens, it will add text to the page warning the user of the danger. This works only with Internet Explorer on Windows; on other browsers the script will silently do nothing. (Other browsers and operating systems are far less vulnerable to parasites anyway.)
You can either download a copy of this script (giving you the opportunity to customise its wording, the pages it links to, and so on), or use a direct link to the script on my site (in which case you’ll always get the latest version but you’d have to trust me not to put any malicious code in it).
parasite.js can be linked to your pages with one simple line of HTML. You don’t need to draw attention to it: added to a page, it will sit quietly having no effect until viewed by someone with one of the known parasites installed. When this happens, it will add text to the page warning the user of the danger. This works only with Internet Explorer on Windows; on other browsers the script will silently do nothing. (Other browsers and operating systems are far less vulnerable to parasites anyway.)
You can either download a copy of this script (giving you the opportunity to customise its wording, the pages it links to, and so on), or use a direct link to the script on my site (in which case you’ll always get the latest version but you’d have to trust me not to put any malicious code in it).
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SOFTWARE AVAILABLE :
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http://www.doxdesk.com/software/
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Python
pxtl: reference implementation of the Python XML Templating Language
pxdom: stand-alone pure-Python DOM Core/XML/Load/Save implementation
form: extended replacement for the standard CGI module
beforesmtp: a trival POP/IMAP-before-SMTP daemon
slogan: an interactive HTTPD log analyser
zipstream: ZIP file I/O without loading the entire file into memory
gifWriter: a slow but optimal GIF saver
riscospath: RISC OS-style path manipulation
JavaScript
event: cross-browser Listener-style event handling
position: makes CSS edge-positioning work in IE
minmax: makes CSS min/max sizing work in IE/Win
fixed: makes CSS fixed positioning, backgrounds work in IE/Win
parasite: exploitationware detection
menu: code-free cross-browser DHTML menus
form: automatic form persistence and required-fields
pxtl: reference implementation of the Python XML Templating Language
pxdom: stand-alone pure-Python DOM Core/XML/Load/Save implementation
form: extended replacement for the standard CGI module
beforesmtp: a trival POP/IMAP-before-SMTP daemon
slogan: an interactive HTTPD log analyser
zipstream: ZIP file I/O without loading the entire file into memory
gifWriter: a slow but optimal GIF saver
riscospath: RISC OS-style path manipulation
JavaScript
event: cross-browser Listener-style event handling
position: makes CSS edge-positioning work in IE
minmax: makes CSS min/max sizing work in IE/Win
fixed: makes CSS fixed positioning, backgrounds work in IE/Win
parasite: exploitationware detection
menu: code-free cross-browser DHTML menus
form: automatic form persistence and required-fields
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About the author :
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Andrew Clover was born in 1976 in Cosford, England. After becoming (more-or-less) educated in various parts of the country he went to the University of Warwick to study computing, became cynical and miserable, found something much more interesting to do and eventually dropped out.
(Twice.)
He now lives in Ingolstadt, Germany, in a nice flat near the pubs. He sometimes works as a programmer and web designer, when he absolutely has to.
He’s a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (you should be too if you care about your future freedom). He is not married, owns no cats, and is not an amateur ornithologist.
other sites created by Andrew:
http://www.doxdesk.com/personal/sites.html
(Twice.)
He now lives in Ingolstadt, Germany, in a nice flat near the pubs. He sometimes works as a programmer and web designer, when he absolutely has to.
He’s a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (you should be too if you care about your future freedom). He is not married, owns no cats, and is not an amateur ornithologist.
other sites created by Andrew:
http://www.doxdesk.com/personal/sites.html
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