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  • MSN Spyware?

    02/27/2004 9:47:06 AM PST · by OldCorps · 62 replies · 37,307+ views
    Self ^ | Feb 27, 2004 | self
    My daughter used AOL IM and MSN hotmail last night. Probably some other stuff too. OS is Windows ME. This morning after booting up i clicked on IExplorer. The computer went to this webpage, showing the usual MSN webpage: http://www.browser-page.com/home.html the computer then opened another page: http://www.adwarehunter.com/creatives/alert1.gif The crazy thing is, I went back to tools, internet options, and reset my homepage back to the Washington Times, and saved changes. I closed down all other operations and reopened IE. Browser again went back to the MSN homepage. What gives? Now i'm really mad, so I ran both spybot and lavasoft...
  • Drudge Site Ripe with Computer Slowing Spyware

    09/21/2003 2:59:04 PM PDT · by BJungNan · 104 replies · 1,589+ views
    AdAware ^ | September 21, 2003 | BJungNan
    Drudge Site Ripe with Computer Slowing Spyware At the suggestion of another Freeper, I installed spyware that removes tracking programs loaded on my computer that I was told were slowing it down. I had mentioned that my computer seemed to be getting slower and slower. Sure enough, once the little spy buggers were cleared out of my computer, the darn thing sped up to an acceptable speed – even for the dial-up connection that I use. But then it happened again. I decided to have a look into the matter. I cleared all the spyware again – twice to be...