stumonster Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 One in twenty computers with an internet connection may be harbouring unwanted "spyware" programs that can record a user's computer use, generate nuisance pop-up ads and may pose a security risk, suggests a US study. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994745 spybot search and destroy www.security.kolla.de/ AdAware www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/ spybot and adaware are two programs you should run at least once a month on your computer, and at the same time check and see if there are updated reference files for both programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouse Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 spybot and adaware are two programs you should run at least once a month Once a day is recommended, at startup. I get more than 50 hits a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
et33.com Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 forget about downloading anything i even throw out all files from those i know .scr .exe .com .??? whatever shit / except SOMETIMES .doc sometimes means 9 out of 9.1 is thrown out anyway who cares from who... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francois Posted March 7, 2004 Share Posted March 7, 2004 and a good firewall would be not that bad .. either zonealarm, tiny perrsonal firewall or else, but beware some are not 100% safe francois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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