Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 14:46:05 03/22/00
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On March 22, 2000 at 16:46:47, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 Not necessarily if they are, say, plug-ins for msie.
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