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Sunday, February 29, 2004

It's officially Leap day...wish spyware jerks would leap off the planet

Kephyr offers yet another manual removal of the Incredifind dungware. Windows Support Center has a section dedicated to fighting spyware called The Parasite Fight. SimplytheBest offers insight and help with malware.

I've spent time with Google and found many sights that pertain to spyware/adware. BTW, the Frogs on the Google title are cool (today is February 29th). There are many people that feel strongly about this invasion of privacy. Contact your members of Congress and raise holy hell. In the meantime download and install both Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware. There are links posted for both and even a button for Spybot. Just click and go make these two programs part of your defense. Be sure and update both immediately and use the immunize funtion in Spybot S & D. Also on the same page, check the three boxes at the bottom (be sure you are in advanced mode) that prevent malware from taking over your browser, etc. Just read the tutorial and everything will install fine. Ad-Aware? Use the default settings.

"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."
-John C. Dvorak

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