nCASE???

[iq214]

Uhm Ive been uninstalling and installing and reinstalling and lost track..so somewhere along this folder named nCASE was created..anyone know what on earth this is? Anyone know what the kyf.dat in it is? Solve this mystery and make this fella a less worried man!

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by iq214
Uhm Ive been uninstalling and installing and reinstalling and lost track..so somewhere along this folder named nCASE was created..anyone know what on earth this is? Anyone know what the kyf.dat in it is? Solve this mystery and make this fella a less worried man!

Open KYF.dat in notepad/wordpad an post the contents. Never heard of it before. But I'll try an figure out what it is.






Peace all, Later

[iq214]

okay man thanks, the kyf.dat is very long so Ill only post a small part of it. It begins like this and goes on and on and on..

*insurance+%2Bacne+%2Badkins+%2Batkins+%2Bcasino+% 2Bfare+%2Binsurance+%2Bkeno+.123debt.com+.1800flow ers.c+.1altld.com/+.1stAmericanCardService.+.2checkout.+.40debts.com +.4creditcarddebtsolutions.com+.800-payless.com+.aa.com+.alibis.com+.almamo.com+.ameri canloansearch.com+.anntaylor.com+.apex2000.+.ata.c om+.athenanews.com+.authorizenet.+.autoeurope.com+ .avis.com+.avon.com+.babystyle.com


needless to say I have no nor have had any contact or doings with any of these companies!

[Crazy Horse]

SPYWARE !! :shoot

[Elistas]

nCASE is known spyware, you can clear it out using Ad-Aware. (http://www.lavasoft.de)

[hawkburn]

Originally posted by Elistas
nCASE is known spyware, you can clear it out using Ad-Aware. (http://www.lavasoft.de)


Correct.

[wonderboy2005]

yeah... spyware or adware.... looks like webiste(s) of a sort.... maybe an ad server.

[CCSDUDE]

Yup, spyware. Rid yourself of it with adaware like everyone says. An for an extra touch make a new file - rename it to Ncase without any extension an delete the Ncase folder. Replace it with the dummy file. An just for extra protection make the Ncase file read only. Now there program can't write to it an theres nothing to read.






Peace all, Later

[iq214]

my dear friends, Im sure we can all figure out this is spyware related given the text in it, but I run adaware daily and it has never detected nor deleted the n-case folder..so no, adaware doesnt do it..also I would like to know where I got this particular kind of spyware as it can only be KLITE, SMASH's HACKTOOL or DESCTOP MANAGER...thats the only proggies downloaded that day..btw, thanks for the dummy tip ccsdude, sounds like a good idea!

[Sephiroth]

you can do the dummy way which i dunno why since you dont have too or you could go to add/remove programs and uninstall it..

[CCSDUDE]

Some spyware/ad servers are tricky an don't mention there installed or even have add/remove features. Some even stay after you remove the host program. www.grc.com has the scoop on all the old ass versions of spyware (one of the first to tackle the issue). There are some good link's there for newbies to the world of evil spyware.






Peace all, Later

[Elistas]

I would also give Spybot - Search & Destroy (http://beam.to/spybotsd) a try. It has found a lot of stuff Ad-Aware didn't on my system in the past.

[The Hunter]

Originally posted by Elistas
I would also give Spybot - Search & Destroy (http://beam.to/spybotsd) a try. It has found a lot of stuff Ad-Aware didn't on my system in the past. Thats a good idea, I just tried it for the first time, and it found a lot that the others missed.

[gorphon]

I reccomended it to a friend of mine, thinkig that he knew enough to check what it found before deleting (he has the knowledge to do so but is just to trusting I guess). anyways, he justdeleted all without checking what was in the list and of course he needed many of the files to run his machine. so Im saying, just check the list first...but they have updated since then so it might be more sselective now.

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by gorphon
I reccomended it to a friend of mine, thinkig that he knew enough to check what it found before deleting (he has the knowledge to do so but is just to trusting I guess). anyways, he justdeleted all without checking what was in the list and of course he needed many of the files to run his machine. so Im saying, just check the list first...but they have updated since then so it might be more sselective now.


Exactly, some spyware likes to over write system files without telling you. So once there gone the system file that has been over written doesn't get the command to do what it normally does an ends up just totally knocking your PC on it's knees. Best way to deal with spyware is to check reviews on all software you DL. Most of the negative reviews are always dead on (unless they sound like they've been written by a troll with no real experience).





Peace all, Later

[iq214]

yeah well Im no n00b to spyware and I also already use spybot and the n-case folder was not included in the add/remove in control panel..Adaware did find some cookies that came from the n-case folder, but not the folder itself or whatever in it made the cookies recreate. I made a dummy folder read-only just in case the proggy it came with may not function without it or may recreate it. An empty folder doesnt take up that much space eh
:-) Istill would like to know where it came from...thanks for the replies folks!

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by iq214
yeah well Im no n00b to spyware and I also already use spybot and the n-case folder was not included in the add/remove in control panel..Adaware did find some cookies that came from the n-case folder, but not the folder itself or whatever in it made the cookies recreate. I made a dummy folder read-only just in case the proggy it came with may not function without it or may recreate it. An empty folder doesnt take up that much space eh
:-) Istill would like to know where it came from...thanks for the replies folks!


I just found out what program it comes with. Though I'd let yall know incase you didn't......Ncase comes with SongSpy.....so I'm guessing you installed SongSpy?