Adware and spyware!

From: Joseph M. (jippy64_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/23/03 

Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 15:44:44 -0800

He;;o,

I'm sure you were asked this before. How do I
stop "adware" & "spyware" from getting into my computer.
I must have looked at or downloaded something.

Now that I got it, how do I dump it. Yhe first thing I
get on my compuyer, (afyer it's booted) is, "server is
busy." I have to mess around to get rid of that message,
I get the ad's. I X out 4 or 5 ad's. What a pain. Wgat
ticks me off is, one of them will try to sell me a
program to stop his and all ad/s.

Can you help a first-timer. Does Microsoft or Sony VAIO
do any thing for their customers. It seems not. Thank
you. Joe McCarthy

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