RANT: Websites that don't have a clue and how they get hits...

[Greebe]

A kid I knew when living in Indy sent me a message lastnight telling me he was sick of his puter taking three minutes to bootup and mentioned DG's link above... I gasped, laughed and then set him straight...

Removed 14 apps from loading at startup, ran Ad aware and removed 890 icky things. Then ran Spybot and removed another 25. Now it boots within normal times

Also told him to use a firewall, dispite being on dialup (just don't use ZA til they get the bugs out of v5)

[The PIT]

Yeh spyware is causing as many probs as virus's. The trend I've noticed at work is that the two seem very well related. Most people who got virus's on their machine also tend to have a lot spyware.

[leech]

Yeah, I'm aware of the OEM restore things. Just that usually the reason why you need an install is because of all the other apps that have been installed conflicting and such... well, the problem isn't as bad with Win2k/XP as it was with Win9x, but still can be a problem.

For the Spyware/Adware stuff... it CAN be just as crippling as a Virus as well. Pretty sad that Windows opens itself to that sort of thing quite easily.

Leech

[Byock]

I noticed using Mozilla instead of IE, cut down the ad ware and spy ware to almost 1/4 on my system.