Somebody tried to rip off my IB account and wire money to New Zealand

[Merc]

Quote from BKuerbs:



It is a novel business idea (I do not want to say or imply the author of Spybot did invent it): The author asks user to make donations. Though only a tiny fraction of the users does make a donation, since the software is used a multi-million times around the world he earnes a very comfortable income. Something in a range that would make a lot of traders envious.

Obviously, this model works only when your software(service) is in really widespread use and sooner or later it is going to stop.

regards

Bernd Kuerbs

How can you be sure that this FREEWARE is NOT SPYWARE itself?
Pardon my paranoia.

 

[Trajan]

Quote from simsim:

I use this windows utility regularly to check what connections are open. It is quite good to raise the bells.

Netstat

run this in command window and u will see all the connections established, and then u can ponder who is going where.

The 2nd thing I use is mozilla browser to browse the internet other than trading / financial sites. Mozilla (mozilla.org is the origin of netscape) lets u block popups , and up to some imit web bugs

for more information on web bugs.

http://www.bugnosis.org/faq.html

I also tried admuncher to stop popups , but that intercepts my streaming software, so I gave that up.

Lastly I jave loaded linux on a old system ( you all will laugh at me if u know the specs) instead of throwing it in the garbage to surf the internet only. and it works as good as my windows 2000 system.

Let us all be more proactive on our desktop security instead of throwing flames here and there.

Sim

I ran port scans over time as well, nothing ever came up, and yes, ad-aware as well, but thats not the problem.

 

[WarEagle]

Quote from Merc:


How can you be sure that this FREEWARE is NOT SPYWARE itself?
Pardon my paranoia.

As for myself, I could not tell if it were also malicious, but I have confidence that one of the thousands of other users out there would have found it and cried wolf by now. Just like when Kazaa first came out.


BTW, slightly off-topic, but related...for those of you who must use Kazaa, be sure to use Kazaa Lite instead (removes the spyware) and also some people I know use Diet Kazaa on top of that. Personally I don't use Kazaa anymore.

 

[Trajan]

Quote from taodr:

I surf with Opera. You can stop pop-ups by going to preferences. The odd extention of certain web pages might not open as they are based on microsoft. I find opera browser definitely faster than microsoft and especially no third party crap opens up or sits on my computer. www.opera.com

Opera rocks.

 

[max401]

Quote from Runningbear:

When it comes to security, here are some steps to follow:

11. And never ever ever ever use your real name on a message board.

Exactly. A certain well known party here on ET has given out so much personal information that a malicious entity could have a field day in stealing his identity.

 

[Scientist]

Quote from WarEagle:

BTW, slightly off-topic, but related...for those of you who must use Kazaa, be sure to use Kazaa Lite instead (removes the spyware) and also some people I know use Diet Kazaa on top of that. Personally I don't use Kazaa anymore.

Jeezuz Christ. I don't understand how people can possibly even still talk about Kazaa...???

Let all alone spyware, it's simply the lamest filesharing tool out there, even super-lame Morpheus beats it. Anybody knows that. Compare the ratings on various web sites of Kazaa vs WinMX, for example.

WinMX is the king now. It's superb, it's the

- Most functional (You can do ANYTHING!)
- Most benign (NO spyware EVER!)
- Most sophisticated and configurable (You'll love it)
- Most CPU-friendly (written by serious programmers, NOT lamers)
- Most memory-friendly (Uses little any at all. The entire program is about 750kB!)
- Now most widely accepted, distributed and supported (Find almost any music, software, movie, picture you like)

Filesharing tool out there.

It's probably one of the best pieces of software written in the last 5 years! It's certainly a software with a very professional feel.

Anybody who still uses Kazaa is behind the moon. I don't even know anybody who still does. Except for a friend's dad, who is a teacher and probably doesn't know any better.

But what am I telling you here? Don't believe me. Try it yourself: www.winmx.com

Have Fun!

Scientist.



P.S: And don't install it on your trading computer, Trajan!
http://mm.dfilm.com/mm2s/mm_route.php?id=1385585

 

[mark1]

I tried to run netstat command while running the API application for IB , Autotrader,
netstat reveals a connection with this address:home.comcast.net. It's a Cable provider.

Do you think the creator of this program is able to spy my trades, and those of all the users?

Thanks for your help.

 

[North Pesos]

Quote from version77:

Does anyone know if the Internet Connection Firewall that is in
XP is of any use? Does it help keep hackers out of your computer?

Yes it work fine, but you have to check the case for to activate it.

 

[WarEagle]

Quote from Scientist:

I don't understand how people can possibly even still talk about Kazaa...???

I'm pretty sure I said I don't use Kazaa. I was just referencing previous posts about it. I use WinMX. It is ok, but I am able to find more things, particularly trading related, with Overnet. As far as I know there is no spyware with it either.

 

[version77]

Quote from mark1:

I tried to run netstat command while running the API application for IB , Autotrader,
netstat reveals a connection with this address:home.comcast.net. It's a Cable provider.

Do you think the creator of this program is able to spy my trades, and those of all the users?

Thanks for your help.

Hmmm. I see nobody has answered this question....