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Re: Malware, Adware and Spyware

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Originally Posted by MissInformation
I have been having one #@&*% of a time with adware and spyware. I get pop-up ads without even having a browser window open! So I am now running AVG Antivirus, Spybot, Ad-aware and Stinger. I'm probably going to add Zone Alarm, and have seriously been thinking of going to Mozilla for my browsing needs... By the time I finish, I'm going to have a safe computer, but no memory left for anything else! It kind of makes me dream of doing evil, evil things to the people who create adware and such...
My advice is to just reformat...my friend had the same problem and no matter what he did, he couldn't get the popups and all that crap off his system.

As for me, I run SpyBot: Search and Destroy on my systems about once a week, and that cleans most of the junk out...But as for anything else, we do Norton Antivirus which will *usually* protect.
*WARNING - Possibly offensive material in the next paragraph*
As for the people who repetitively get things like BonzaiBuddy and xupiter on systems, a lot of times it doesn't really help to preach to them because these are the people who don't know a lot about computers. They might just get another annoying piece of adware stuck on the system at some other point, so we just try to keep them informed on what kind of stuff to download, and what shouldn't be downloaded, as well as what should be avoided at all times.
Does that help any?
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