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WE NEED TO GET RID OF SPYWARE FOR EVER

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WE NEED TO GET RID OF SPYWARE FOR EVER

I am sick of it.

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I am sick of spyware infecting computers. It seems all I do these days is clean spyware from computers to get them working. Education of the user community is one step to help but it is not enough. I don't like having to set up a computer with Antivirus, Spam filter, software firewall, hardware firewall , oh and don't let me forget the Windows Update. It is just rediculous that all this has to be done just to insure safe computing. It would be like before you go outside you have to put yourself into a bubble just to protect yourself from being attacked from things you cannot see.
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You know, I haven't had a problem with spyware for a while now. I might get one here and there. I've gone months without scanning and when I do scan sometimes I find one or none.

I run all the time a anti-virus, Firewall, and Peer Gaurdian.

Peer Gaurdian is a awesome program, it blocks soo much crap from the net that could hurt your computer. It's located here -> http://methlabs.org/
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
'Guardian' .... Spell checker
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Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Just as well they didn't have corporal punishment in schools when I was a lad - I'd NEVER have made into adulthood otherwise. Tis a sad thing when a school environment has bars and security guards to keep the peace, etc. When I was going to school, guns and true violence were never heard of, just rotten egg gas bombs and the occasional "golden flush" (toilet dunking) for a few non-conformists. Sometimes we might even sneak in a smoke behind the bike sheds, but what's the world coming to when kids have access to firearms and take them into schools - sad, sad sad!

However, this does not address the issue of spyware/malware. Like Weaksid, I rarely had a problem with it and hardly ever had to run programs to clean my computer, but I recently had an attack, most likely via an executable file to install a (bundled) theme to port, and now I scan daily in my vigilance to protect my investment. It seems every entreprenuer and his dog is trying to infiltrate our lives one way or another for a fast buck, so what's to say that the anti-spyware progammers aren't also dabbling on the other side of the fence to create employment for themseves
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How do you think alot of the viruses are created
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
get rid of spyware forever?!

to hell with that
i'd be out of a job if there was no spyware.
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Chime in again... I find it laughable that AOL is running ads on TV promoting their "safe" network and are what I term the most computer intrusive internet firm




little known fact... wallmart has an ISP and i call it AOL light. cost me $10.00 a month and I don't have to have all the pains that come with AOL's main program!



i tell people never use the big name virus programs because the $^*@%$^& who write these things are after "the most bang for the buck" and that means these are what they go after when they write a virus program. it's like haveing a target flash for them to hit!!! (i gave away my disk's for norton to some one i don't like! LOL)



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Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That's alright, Doomgaze, there's other kinds of employment in I.T. Still reckon boomerang technology is the go, with a x10 amplifier to really ram the message home to the sources of these parasites. A fractured monitor and box or two would be a deterrent, don't you think? Explosives would be the go if you could add them to the boomerang Maybe even a small nuke :