Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 06:26:36 03/22/00
Hi all: Just for sheer luck, time ago I got into a site where a programmer dedicates himself to fight againts the many threats that lurks in the net. Kind of a crusader. Thanks to him I discovered, that very first time, my weakenesses respect hackers intrusion and at once I solved that issue with an australian program called TDS-2. Now I am better protected that a heavy tank. But, just yesterday, this guy showed to me another nuisance, that is, how spyware material is spreaded in our computers by so many freeware programs, some of them very popular and good in his area. The stuff that program spread witouth warning in our computer goes from cookies more or less harmless to kind of cibernetic robots that silently keeps sending information about us to databanks that duly give them to comercial sites. Or whatever. In fact I was wondering how so many USA commerce sites has got something about me and keep full my em,ail with advertising. Well, the robots did. What`s worst, that things seems to damage the perfomance of your PC. In fact, after running the little program to clean the mess that this guy gives for free, I discovered no less than 48 of that spys in my system. After I remove them, my benchmark get better susbtantially. So, just in case you want to be really clean and get same improvement, I dare to advice you to go to this http://grc.com/optout.htm. Just in case, I have nothing to do commercially speaking with that guy, nor I win nothing sending you to that place. I do this for love to you all :-) You will not be dissappointed, although prepare yourselves to lose some of that freeware troyan horses that simply does not run if you does not let them to put his eggs. Fernando
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