Re: Adware and spyware!

From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 12/23/03


Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:18:50 -0700

Joseph;
See #5 & #6 on this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/Slowcom.htm

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"Joseph M." <jippy64@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:043501c3c8e5$93679150$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> 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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