Re: Computer woes
From: | <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Thursday, December 4, 2003, 19:44 |
paul-bennett scripsit:
> Get SpyBot from www.download.com It gives you a list of all the URLs which
> have installed themselves invisibly as start pages and search pages and all
> that bumf. You do have to use "advanced" mode to do that, I think, but it's
> well worth it and not so advanced that it takes a genius.
Or get AdAware from http://www.lavasoft.de. Better yet, get both -- they
don't always find the same things. (Note: if you use LavaSoft's quarantine
operation to sequester obnoxious stuff, SpyBot will report the quarantine
area as being toxic. Don't worry.)
--
John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com jcowan@reutershealth.com
All "isms" should be "wasms". --Abbie