I have a couple jobs. One of them is at a computer help desk at a University. I help undergraduates connect to the school's LAN. Very frequently, when i have to go fix a connection problem, I find that the students PC is just clogged with Spyware. Running AdAware a few times usually fixes this.
Then at my other job at UPS I talked to a co-employee who asked me about Kazaa. I confirmed his suspisions about kazaa's spyware riddled software. I tried to point him to cnet.com's articles about how to remove the 3rd party BDE bandwith/HDD stealing software. But it was to no avail. I think he just zoned out.
I sound like a broken record. "Run AdAware" "Run AdAware", bleh.
Do users need to buy (hehe) antivirus software and anti-spyware/adware these days?
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A neighbour of mine was having problems with a PC she bought 2 months ago...
"It's really slow"
"sometimes the internet won't work"
"I can't access my online banking anymore"
I ran SpyBot on it and found over 300 hits...cleaned it out and her machine is fine now.
People are suckers for pop-ups, I tried to explain what she was doing that caused the problem but she just went glass-eyed.... like most of the masses she doesn't know any better and doesn't want to.....
HaArD
"It's really slow"
"sometimes the internet won't work"
"I can't access my online banking anymore"
I ran SpyBot on it and found over 300 hits...cleaned it out and her machine is fine now.
People are suckers for pop-ups, I tried to explain what she was doing that caused the problem but she just went glass-eyed.... like most of the masses she doesn't know any better and doesn't want to.....
HaArD
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