90Xjay
New member
You know spyware has messed up the web like viruses have email.
If you have not had spyware on your machine yet, just wait.
I hate this stuff, the people who write this, if caught should be charged with felony disctruction of personal property.
I went into the local puter shop and amost 1/3 of all customers were coming in for spyware removal.
I had a perfectly good 4 year old 98SE machine, but I found the "shopping wizard" malware along with 2 others and I spent over a week trying to remove them, all of the removal tools are amost all geared for XP now. It pushed me to make a decision that I was putting off anyway which is to buy a new puter and reformat the old one and donate it to my son to do homework and play games on.
If you have spyware, you should take it as a serious threat to your privacy. If you bank or shop online, shady people in holes in other countries even could be waiting for you to type in your password or card numbers. Yes, that is true, some of these programs can detect keystrokes you type and send them to a third party without you knowing it.
I remember when the spyware got on my machine, my 6 year old was playing on Nickjr.com and he yelled that the game froze, and sure enough the puter was locked down, when I reset and rebooted, the browser was hijacked and it all went down hill from there, the more I tryed to remove it, the worse it got.
My advice is keep your drives backed up and don't waste too much time trying to remove it if you get it, just reformat and start fresh.
The internet is sure fun huh?
If you have not had spyware on your machine yet, just wait.
I hate this stuff, the people who write this, if caught should be charged with felony disctruction of personal property.
I went into the local puter shop and amost 1/3 of all customers were coming in for spyware removal.
I had a perfectly good 4 year old 98SE machine, but I found the "shopping wizard" malware along with 2 others and I spent over a week trying to remove them, all of the removal tools are amost all geared for XP now. It pushed me to make a decision that I was putting off anyway which is to buy a new puter and reformat the old one and donate it to my son to do homework and play games on.
If you have spyware, you should take it as a serious threat to your privacy. If you bank or shop online, shady people in holes in other countries even could be waiting for you to type in your password or card numbers. Yes, that is true, some of these programs can detect keystrokes you type and send them to a third party without you knowing it.
I remember when the spyware got on my machine, my 6 year old was playing on Nickjr.com and he yelled that the game froze, and sure enough the puter was locked down, when I reset and rebooted, the browser was hijacked and it all went down hill from there, the more I tryed to remove it, the worse it got.
My advice is keep your drives backed up and don't waste too much time trying to remove it if you get it, just reformat and start fresh.
The internet is sure fun huh?
