Spyware sucks, ads and popups drive me crazy
|
|
|
Spyware and Adware
The people who create these malicious programs that infect our PC's ought to be strung up in my opinion. Prison is probably too good for them because they get to play with PCs in there as well.
|
Have you been dogged by spyware for a while now? Well join the club, because so has nearly everyone else that I know. I’ve been tearing my hair out with pop ups and about a zillion spyware removal tools.
Please be sure to read the article
before joining this moderated forum. No user registration is required to post comments.
|
|
| Posted |
Comment |
Visitor |
| 27-7-2007 | The anti-virus programe generates the spam to make it look like it works. Everytime you connect to the net the anti-virus programe contacts their server and it sends you some spam and other things which your anti-virus programe finds and kills. The only way you can get a virus on a computer is if yo...more | Bruce H |
| 08-12-2006 | I too have had it ~UP-TO-HERE~ with adware! I don't go to any websites of questionable character - for want of a better expression. These slime balls that perpetuate adware are just that - slime balls! I've had run ins with the webmasters of several websites that I have valid reason to belie...more | Captain D |
| 07-11-2006 | Ted"Nuff Said" Miller,It's not as simple as that.I don't go on porn sites,sites connected with Phishing,Medical enlargment sites or have ever offered to launder money through my bank account.I have never asked to be included on any mailing list and only use my email account for com...more | Bob |
| 06-11-2006 | You all make the assumtion that to get spyware and spam, you have to go on the site that sent it.I have been having a tussle with AOL lately because of all the porno phishing medical fraudulant and dating spam emails that I have been flooded with.Sites which I have never visited.Evidentaly the spamm...more | anon |
| 03-10-2006 | Just dont look at porn and things that will obiously get you spyware! Or there are some good free blockers out there | Tonny |
| 29-9-2006 | I prefer SpyBot (Search and Destroy). It can be used alongside the Microsoft equivalent and is very reliable. (It's also free). | Attila the Mum |
| 10-10-2005 | The first question I ask when I get dragged out to fix someones spyware infested machine is "do you have teenage children?". This is because most of the worst spyware comes in with p2p file sharing programs commonly used to get music illegally. It's all in the user agreements which noo...more | Infosec guy |
| 17-9-2005 | If you don't go on the porno sites you don't get the spyware, its as simple as that.
Keep of the porn and get a decent firewall. | Ted "Nuff Said" Miller |
| 10-9-2005 | I'm sick to death of spyware, popups, ads and all the rubbish you get. I havent tried the microsoft blocker yet but I might give it a go. Why do people waste time creating spyware and adware when they can do something usefull | Michael |
>> next >>
|
