Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 13:46:47 03/22/00
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On March 22, 2000 at 09:26:36, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 Wouldn't these "spy" programs show up on a list of processes running on your computer? -Tom
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