[FBD]

lol! good one.

The cable company dolts told me to go to the xupitor web site, and ask for directions on unistalling their spyware. Ya, right. That's when I posted this. I got more help here at FR in a matter of minutes, then I did on hold w/ the cable comp.

I just got the IFCC site: - Internet Fraud Complaint Center: http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp

I am going to file a complaint.

[Clinging Bitterly]

Interesting thread.
I use ZoneAlarm and NAV, so I get alerted to most things that go on, and I'll check downloads for spyware if there's something out there that I find tempting.

I use Ad-Aware and like it, but I just tried this SpyBot that folks are plugging here, and it did uncover some registry entries that gave trusted status to some websites that are known to sometimes contain malware. Norton will usually catch malware as it moves into your cache, trusted status or not, but there still has been no intention on my part to give any website trusted site status - ever. I'd suspect those are from lesser known java exploits. I guess none of this protection stuff is perfect. One needs to be careful.

Funny, I don't have these problems on the Linux side of the system.

Dave in Eugene