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To: goldstategop

I am not suprised that Vonage would use spyware or spam to advertise. Vonage's TV advertising is specifically and shamelessly targeting stupid people.


8 posted on 06/25/2005 2:02:25 AM PDT by Jeff Gordon (Recall Barbara Boxer)
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To: Jeff Gordon

What is the best ware killer our there?

Here is something that happened to me. I got some crap on my computer one time and it reset my homepage and anytime I typed in a URL to go to, it would pop up with some site called slatch or something. It was a search engine type site and it would ask the question in a clickable link, "did you mean www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com?" the xxxxx's were what ever I typed in. So I would HAVE to click the link to go anywhere at all. It was horrible.

I was so mad that I almost threw my computer, well my monitor, out of the window. Amazingly(/sarcasm), a link showed up a few hours later saying that spykiller could help out. I downloaded the trial and it found the problem. But I had to pay to have it removed. So I paid. I can only think that spykiller is installing this crap just so you buy there product. BTW, I used ad-aware and other programs and they could not fix it.

The fact that no other program I tried that day would take the crap off my computer added to the fact that this search page had a link advertising spykiller leads me to my conclusion that spykiller (or an affiliate) is maliciously installing this stuff to make sales of their software.

Has anyone had this type of problem?

So back to my original question. What is the best spyware removal program? Do you run combinations of programs?

In conclusion, if I was to ever run into one of these people that create/install/propagate the malicious spyware/malware, I will put them in the hospital! No sarcasm intended!

Thanks for reading my Rant


10 posted on 06/25/2005 2:31:42 AM PDT by BookaT (My cat's breath smells like cat food!)
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