caleb68 opened this issue on May 29, 2003 ยท 47 posts
Crescent posted Thu, 29 May 2003 at 11:52 PM
If we find a link with Xupiter on it, we'll let the person know. Sometimes those things aren't obvious, especially if the person is already infected with it. If I had a list of known Xupiter providers, I'd be posting it everywhere I know. I hate those sick SOBs. I work in IT and I've had colleagues end up with Xupiter on their machines and they're very careful about avoiding those sorts of things. I don't know if it was a misclick or an autoinstall, but suddenly Xupiter was happy screwing up the browser and it was a PITA to get rid of. I'm not entirely sure the anti-spyware is always successful, and Xupiter is constantly updating itself, so some versions may not be cleaned out properly with AdAware and such. Is it safe to rely just on antivirus software, or is it better to use some common sense and avoid files like annakournakova.jpg.pif? Cheers!