C
Cyndi
I have a 6 month old computer and scanned it with Ad-
aware 6.0 by www.Lavasoft.de (free download) and it found
over 169 ad-ware and spyware programs installed on the
computer.
1. After learning about them online I have found that
turning up your Internet Options Setting to Medium High
prevents alot of them from getting into your computer.
2. Turning on your firewall already installed on all XP
versions helps too.
3. Cleaning out cache at least every week or more helps.
4. Run a virus scan every week.
What I don't know is what Programs are suppose to be in
the Add/Remove Programs folder when the computers new. So
I can always be aware of any new Spyware/Adware added to
it... by drive by downloads. Because this is where you
can find some of them hiding... even if I have a removal
program installed I wanna stop this crap. I even had
Malware installed... it tried to call a $39.99 phone
line... in order to get it to stop it wanted me to pay to
get info to uninstall it. I even got the free
www.iwon.com popswatter to stop pop-ups. That how I
discovered I had spyware and adware... after install it,
I still had pop-ups and wrote to them asking why... they
told me about spyware and adware and thats how my journey
began... so lookup "spyware". If your having shut down
problems and other slow connections... most likely they
are why...
So everyone do the above to stop it.
aware 6.0 by www.Lavasoft.de (free download) and it found
over 169 ad-ware and spyware programs installed on the
computer.
1. After learning about them online I have found that
turning up your Internet Options Setting to Medium High
prevents alot of them from getting into your computer.
2. Turning on your firewall already installed on all XP
versions helps too.
3. Cleaning out cache at least every week or more helps.
4. Run a virus scan every week.
What I don't know is what Programs are suppose to be in
the Add/Remove Programs folder when the computers new. So
I can always be aware of any new Spyware/Adware added to
it... by drive by downloads. Because this is where you
can find some of them hiding... even if I have a removal
program installed I wanna stop this crap. I even had
Malware installed... it tried to call a $39.99 phone
line... in order to get it to stop it wanted me to pay to
get info to uninstall it. I even got the free
www.iwon.com popswatter to stop pop-ups. That how I
discovered I had spyware and adware... after install it,
I still had pop-ups and wrote to them asking why... they
told me about spyware and adware and thats how my journey
began... so lookup "spyware". If your having shut down
problems and other slow connections... most likely they
are why...
So everyone do the above to stop it.