Educause Security Discussion mailing list archives
Re: Pop-up Prevention
From: Jon Mitchiner <jon.mitchiner () GALLAUDET EDU>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:04:59 -0400
You will need to pay for Ad-Aware if you use it in a University environment. Because of the steep licensing costs we encourage users to run Spybot Search & Destroy (which is free!). Jon Mitchiner Gallaudet University ----- Original Message ----- From: Rob Whalen To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Pop-up Prevention Run Ad-Aware 6.0 on your workstations. You will need the paid version in order to keep the protection ongoing. Gibbs, Aaron M. wrote: >Can anyone recommend a solution that would prevent an infestation of pop-ups. We've implemented the use of several different utilities to prevent such stuff from showing up with minimal success. I'm searching for a more robust solution. > >Aaron M Gibbs >Director >Networking and Telecommunications >St. Augustine's College >Center for Information Technology >919-516-4237 (Office) >919-516-4382 (Fax) >amgibbs () st-aug edu >www.st-aug.edu > >********** >Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/. > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
Current thread:
- Re: Pop-up Prevention Eric Pancer (Jul 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Pop-up Prevention Gibbs, Aaron M. (Jul 14)
- Re: Pop-up Prevention Ariel Silverstone (Jul 14)
- Re: Pop-up Prevention Lucas, Bryan (Jul 14)
- Re: Pop-up Prevention Rob Whalen (Jul 14)
- Re: Pop-up Prevention Jeff Giacobbe (Jul 14)
- Re: Pop-up Prevention Jon Mitchiner (Jul 14)
- Re: Pop-up Prevention Jason Richardson (Jul 14)
- Re: Pop-up Prevention Andy Freed (Jul 14)
- Re: Pop-up Prevention Berbeco, Robert W (Jul 15)
- Re: Pop-up Prevention Gibbs, Aaron M. (Jul 21)
- Re: Pop-up Prevention Gary Flynn (Jul 21)
- Re: Pop-up Prevention Jeff Giacobbe (Jul 22)