The crime of Spyware

The crime of Spyware [+ favourites]

Tonight I ran my computer without a firewall for about 30 minutes, and in that time I acquired 55 spyware virusses. These virusses usually have these symptoms:

1. You will get popups on random pages. Test it on google. If you browse google and get any popups, you have spyware installed. Same with Captain Cynic.

2. If pages sometimes take a few seconds to initialize, then load. When this happens it's like the entire browser freezes. This is spyware.

3. When your computer "tanks". If you press control+alt+dlete and see the little green meter in the bottom right corner is at 100%, likely, you have a virus or two installed.

4. You lose internet connectivity randomly that is fixed when you reboot.

All in all, if you don't know much about spyware or virusses, you probably are infected with something.

Free Solution:

http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html

These guys have a free downloader with no ads. It checks and cleans up any and all spyware. It's not a virus cleaner, but I find that virusses are harder to attain that spyware is now.

I'm a full on nerd, and I use this program.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

My prob last night was a .bot as well.

My resource is this here, mainly for viruses but catches alot of stuff.

Clicky here

Then click on the "scan now its free."

It will ask you to install something go ahead and do it this place is cool.

"The Restless Mind - The curiosity of intellectual infancy"

I have to work against this garbage every day!

Everyone needs to be running a firewall -controls what signal goes in and out from your computer- ligitimate softeware will try and update or whatever without your knowledge. It is alarming when you find out al that is going on....
My suggestion Sygate: free firewall is good-
http://www.sygate.com/ excellent program

also you need an Antivirus program you can trust also I suggest AVG also free-
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php run once a week

Now those items will help but thirdly you need an anti spyware program on your pc Spybot is good but I use Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoft.com/

These are all good programs but don't take my word on it do some research get some second opinions Also steer clear of downloading programs you are uncertain of
need to find a program a great source is download.com.

Spyware is not a problem restricted to porno sites its everywhere - people want info about you so they can send you pop up windows or worse!

"No one ever won a war by sitting in a ditch"