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Sick of Spam? Prepare for Adware
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| 5/7/2004
| Amit Asaravala
Posted on 05/07/2004 8:04:07 AM PDT by justlurking
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To: MizSterious
I have Adware and AVG6...........Would adding SpyBot be superfulous?
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posted on
05/07/2004 1:11:57 PM PDT
by
Carolinamom
(No man or woman is poor if he/she can laugh.)
To: happydogdesign
I paid $19.95 for Webroot's SpySweeper, and it was worth every penny. Updates, scans, cleans, and the tech support guys helped me with workarounds for two particularly persistent little buggers. Best investment on my PC I've ever made.
Not saying the free ones aren't good, but I'm suspecting there's something extra if you upgrade, and there's a reason they charge for it.
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posted on
05/07/2004 1:13:09 PM PDT
by
XJarhead
To: glorgau
Shhhhhh....If that gets out, us Mac users will have to start struggling with this junk, too. And as an IT geek, I do mean struggle. Sometimes it's easier just to give the end user a good whack(verbal or otherwise), rebuild their machine(without trying to recover their "important" files), and move on.
To: E Rocc
Got Ad Aware successfully downloaded.
And it scanned etc. well the first time or 3.
Now, when I reboot, it seems like when I press the scan button, nothing will happen.
Not sure why.
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posted on
05/07/2004 1:29:19 PM PDT
by
Quix
(Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
To: HusbandMan; All
Sometimes it's easier just to give the end user a good whack(verbal or otherwise), rebuild their machine(without trying to recover their "important" files), and move on.That is why I NEVER keep any user files on the system...especially the ones that use Image Disks for restoration!
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posted on
05/07/2004 1:32:12 PM PDT
by
Lael
(Patent Law...not a single Supreme Court Justice is qualified to take the PTO Bar Exam!)
To: All
There's a very simple trick that will block most if not all incoming spyware from Internet Explorer. Go to tools, internet options, privacy, advanced, and set to block all "third party cookies". If some have already installed, you'll need to clean those out with an extractor (recommend Ad-Aware), but if you make the change no more should be able to install. At least not any yet on my systems.
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