Spyware was Re: Any UK list members?

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Tue Apr 1 12:26:00 2003

Yes, I run it every week or two and it keeps the crap down to a minimum.

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Joe wrote:

> At 03:02 AM 4/1/03 +0000, Mike wrote:
> >>If anyone on here is from the UK, they might want to take a look at
> >> >http://computerhardwareneeded.cjb.net and read this guys story
> >
> >I'm a Brit in the USA.
> >
> >Most of us are friendly helpful folks.
> >
> >Most of of us become unfriendly when directed to a website that tries to
> >install Gator spyware on our machines, like you just did...
> >
>
> Speaking of Gator, if you're running MicroSloth's Wincrap go and download a copy of Ad-Aware. It's free and it will hunt down all the Spy-Ware crap and delete it.
>
> Joe
>

M. K. Peirce

Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island

"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
              
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