Adware and spyware!

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 12/23/03 

Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:44:47 -0800

Here's a great adware removal program called Ad-Aware.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

There is a free version available and it does a wonderful
job finding and removing adware. Frequent updates are
availble for the free version.

>-----Original Message-----
>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
>.
>