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Holo · 12-18-2003, 07:33 AM

I recently helped a neighbor clean out an old PC she got from her niece that's in college and decided to run Spybot on it. It was an old 166Mhz and it was really crawling bad. I soon found out why. Spybot came back with over 5000 entries! It had to reboot and start before windows loaded to fix it all. It was almost a museum of spyware...every piece of spyware I've ever heard of was there and other's I'd never seen.

Ever found a lot of spyware on a friend's or relative's PC? Did you try and teach them to avoid it? And did they listen?

12-18-2003, 07:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
Holo A Real American	Most spyware you've ever seen on one machine I recently helped a neighbor clean out an old PC she got from her niece that's in college and decided to run Spybot on it. It was an old 166Mhz and it was really crawling bad. I soon found out why. Spybot came back with over 5000 entries! It had to reboot and start before windows loaded to fix it all. It was almost a museum of spyware...every piece of spyware I've ever heard of was there and other's I'd never seen. Ever found a lot of spyware on a friend's or relative's PC? Did you try and teach them to avoid it? And did they listen? __________________ I happen to like the words "fuck", "cock", "pussy", "tits", "cunt", "twat", "shit" and even "bitch". As long as I am not using them to describe you, don't go telling me whether or not I can/should use them...that is, if you want me to continue refraining from using them to describe you. ~Prince