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Jake Doevan

Computer technology expert

Jake Doevan is one of News Editors for 2-spyware.com. He graduated from the Washington and Jefferson College (PA), Communication and Journalism studies. The case of Blaster worm sparked his interest in the cyber security and played an important role of another accelerator for Jake to immerse himself in the IT sphere. In 2003 he moved to New York where he accidentally met Ugnius Kiguolis (2-spyware co-founder). They merged their ideas of improving people's security awareness and launched the project called 2-spyware.com. Specifically, credits for Ask us service and Files section belong to Jake. Besides this project, he also writes occasional commentaries about cyber security and tech news in blogs and local newspapers. In his free time (a rare privilege), when he is not educating himself about cyber security and writing articles, he finds pleasure in traveling, reading detective stories, and collecting antique radios. He is particularly interested in Latin America. 

Articles, Tutorials

Spy Sweeper tutorial

According to WebRoot’s announcement, they decided to replace Spy Sweeper with Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus. This program was filled with Spy Sweeper’s ‘Protection against spyware threats’ feature. However, it has also

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Files, Spyware related

msdirectx.sys

msdirectx.sys is a malicious file that allows the associated parasite to work as a hidden system process or fake device driver. It can be

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Files, Spyware related

ssmgr.exe

ssmgr.exe is an executable file that starts a malicious process, launches certain parasite components or runs a destructive payload. Even if the ssmgr.exe file

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Uncategorized

Windows OneCare is going beta

Windows OneCare, Microsoft’s new integrated anti-spyware and antivirus security suite will be going beta. The product, which was already tested by the chosen ones,

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Files, System files

stimon.exe

From Microsoft company: “Still Image Monitor (Stimon.exe) is a tool that is installed by Windows Millennium Edition (Me) and Windows 98 when a Universal

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Files, Spyware related

ssadmin.exe

ssadmin.exe is an executable file that is responsible for launching parasites, loading main components of malicious programs and running a destructive payload. It is

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Files, Spyware related

boom.exe

boom.exe is an executable file that is responsible for launching parasites, loading main components of malicious programs and running a destructive payload. It is

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Uncategorized

Spybot – Search & Destroy tutorial

Table of contents. Introduction Installing Spybot – Search & Destroy Starting Spybot – Search & Destroy for the first time Using Spybot – Search

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Uncategorized

Starting the system in Safe Mode

Often spyware and other parasites change default system behavior in order to obstruct their manual removal or make it virtually impossible. Even if the

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Uncategorized

Manual removal of harmful files

Every program consists of files. Even spyware, a virus or a different parasite – all have their own files. Removing the parasite often means

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Spyware news
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