[wplug] Windows - Is this happening to you too?

Ben Beige b.beige at zoominternet.net
Sun May 30 12:31:17 EDT 2004


One of the best remedies for spy-ware in my experience is not using IE at 
all except on trusted site, and if you must use IE turn off all most all 
active-X functions, plus read all EULAs and just be careful what you install.



At 11:50 PM 5/29/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>I've had no problems with Ad-Aware or Spybot insofar as impacting performance.
>AV software, though, CAN certainly turn a blazing fast system into a slug.
>
>Cheers,
>Anna
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bill Moran" <wmoran at potentialtech.com>
>
> > A. McCullough wrote:
> > > Have both Ad-Aware and Spybot running and have HAD them both running.
>Neither
> > > caught this particular pain in the a$$. Don't have SpywareBlaster yet
>though -
> > > I'm always leery of installing yet another program to the mix (and 
> frankly,
>a
> > > lot of so-called adware removers are nothing but adware themselves).
> >
> > And they _all_ make the lousy performance of Windows even worse!  Just like
> > AV software does.
> >
> > --
> > Bill Moran
> > Potential Technologies
>
>
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