Spyware or Keylogger

edperks · Feb 20, 2003, 05:05 AM

Today I was adding a new dialup connection an seen that i had a dialup connection called "Mainpean Highspeed" I did a search on the internet and found out some info on this being a spyware program or a keylogger program that sends in result thru email. Most of the sites were in German or Russian so i had a hard time making out anything. I also did a registry search for Mainpean and found a key and deleted it. If any of you guys know about this please respond becuase i pay most of my bills online and if it is a keylogger program Im going to have all my credit cards replaced and my debit card. I also ran Adaware 6.0 but it did not find anything neither did bullguard Anitvirus.

Thanks

Ed

Rayder · Feb 20, 2003, 06:06 AM

Dunno.....maybe try Spybot Search & Destroy. You can find it at www.download.com, just do a search for "spybot" when the page comes up. Maybe that proggie will knock it out of the system.

Cyan007 · Feb 20, 2003, 07:42 AM

Thanks for the program Rayder, I'm going to start using this, any side effects that you know of?

Cyan007 · Feb 20, 2003, 07:49 AM

Quick question, is there such a thing as a cookie manager? Or something down the lines where you can keep the cookies you want... but it gets rid of all unwanted cookies?

Edit: Ha, NM, went to download.com

Cyan007 · Feb 20, 2003, 08:02 AM

Well... browsed through download.com real quick... I don't think I found exactly what I'm looking for, or perhaps I missed it. What I'd like is a program where I can say "hey, all the cookies from here, here, and here, keep. All the rest get rid of no matter what." Or something down the line like that. So like it will keep my forums passwords and such so I don't have to keep relogging in. But I do hate all the other 100's of cookies from like dell, ebay, and such that has no reason to be therre. Actually, other than a few forums and tvguide.com, I have no use for any other cookies.

DarkFoss · Feb 22, 2003, 04:04 AM

With Nortons System Works pro you can clean up the cookies you don't want and save the ones you do as well as edit your history.I found out even with setting my historys to zero days and in the advanced internet properties tab checking empty temporary internet file when browser closes, Windows was leaving stuff behind and showed me historys from 2 weeks previous. I bought my copy online for 29.99, 36 with shipping. Thought it was a good deal since Ghost alone is 40-60 bucks depending on where you look.

Redon · Feb 25, 2003, 12:55 AM

Go here for spybot:

http://spybot.safer-networking.de/

as you can see on the right hand side of the page, it detects Mainpean, which it lists as a 'dialer'.

Pest Patrol also lists this as a dialer on this page:

http://www.safersite.com/PestInfo/db/s/stardialer.asp

but titles it 'stardialer', the author being 'Mainpean GmbH'

Bottom line, get rid of it.... fast.

Feb 20, 2003, 05:05 AM	#1
edperks HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 780 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Spyware or Keylogger Today I was adding a new dialup connection an seen that i had a dialup connection called "Mainpean Highspeed" I did a search on the internet and found out some info on this being a spyware program or a keylogger program that sends in result thru email. Most of the sites were in German or Russian so i had a hard time making out anything. I also did a registry search for Mainpean and found a key and deleted it. If any of you guys know about this please respond becuase i pay most of my bills online and if it is a keylogger program Im going to have all my credit cards replaced and my debit card. I also ran Adaware 6.0 but it did not find anything neither did bullguard Anitvirus. Thanks Ed

Feb 20, 2003, 07:42 AM	#3
Cyan007 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Newport News, VA Posts: 212 Rep Power: 0	Thanks for the program Rayder, I'm going to start using this, any side effects that you know of? __________________ Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2 Shuttle SN95G5 v3 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Geil 1024MB PC3200 DDR400 (512x2) ATI AIW Radeon X800XT Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Seagate Barracude 500GB SATA

Feb 20, 2003, 07:49 AM	#4
Cyan007 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Newport News, VA Posts: 212 Rep Power: 0	Quick question, is there such a thing as a cookie manager? Or something down the lines where you can keep the cookies you want... but it gets rid of all unwanted cookies? Edit: Ha, NM, went to download.com __________________ Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2 Shuttle SN95G5 v3 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Geil 1024MB PC3200 DDR400 (512x2) ATI AIW Radeon X800XT Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Seagate Barracude 500GB SATA

Feb 20, 2003, 08:02 AM	#5
Cyan007 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Newport News, VA Posts: 212 Rep Power: 0	Well... browsed through download.com real quick... I don't think I found exactly what I'm looking for, or perhaps I missed it. What I'd like is a program where I can say "hey, all the cookies from here, here, and here, keep. All the rest get rid of no matter what." Or something down the line like that. So like it will keep my forums passwords and such so I don't have to keep relogging in. But I do hate all the other 100's of cookies from like dell, ebay, and such that has no reason to be therre. Actually, other than a few forums and tvguide.com, I have no use for any other cookies. __________________ Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2 Shuttle SN95G5 v3 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Geil 1024MB PC3200 DDR400 (512x2) ATI AIW Radeon X800XT Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Seagate Barracude 500GB SATA

Feb 22, 2003, 04:04 AM	#6
DarkFoss HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Downers Grove IL Posts: 688 Rep Power: 0	With Nortons System Works pro you can clean up the cookies you don't want and save the ones you do as well as edit your history.I found out even with setting my historys to zero days and in the advanced internet properties tab checking empty temporary internet file when browser closes, Windows was leaving stuff behind and showed me historys from 2 weeks previous. I bought my copy online for 29.99, 36 with shipping. Thought it was a good deal since Ghost alone is 40-60 bucks depending on where you look. __________________ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety,deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Ben Franklin, 1755

Feb 20, 2003, 06:06 AM	#2
Rayder Mostly lurking lately.... Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 2,161 Rep Power: 73	Dunno.....maybe try Spybot Search & Destroy. You can find it at www.download.com, just do a search for "spybot" when the page comes up. Maybe that proggie will knock it out of the system.

Feb 25, 2003, 12:55 AM	#7
Redon DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 26 Rep Power: 0	Go here for spybot: http://spybot.safer-networking.de/ as you can see on the right hand side of the page, it detects Mainpean, which it lists as a 'dialer'. Pest Patrol also lists this as a dialer on this page: http://www.safersite.com/PestInfo/db/s/stardialer.asp but titles it 'stardialer', the author being 'Mainpean GmbH' Bottom line, get rid of it.... fast.