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About a month or so ago I got attacked by one of these Active X/Java trojan things...what a pain in the ass. I forgot what it was called, but when I googled the exact words that were popping up on my taskbar a bunch of info came up about it, including a few solutions to the problem. It kept planting itself on my taskbar and saying I had to update my Windows anti-virus etc., then it started to interfere with all sorts of things. It was the worst computer virus thing I've ever had. And I got this in spite of having Spybot Search & Destroy plus Symantec Norton Anti-virus (imo a piece of crap) running actively. And then they were useless getting rid of it. I finally got PC Tools Spyware Doctor and ran that a couple times, plus ran it in safe mode, and then I finally managed to get rid of it. Only downside is this product cost me a few bucks, it's not free. But I'm happy with it and have it running now, and once in a while it does pop up and ask if a nasty site should be blocked or allowed if I happen to stumble someplace like that.
If anybody organizes a band of armed mercenaries to go after the companies/people who do this kind of thing, count me in.
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