mr. doom & spies

Friday, January 30, 2004 by lordbarton | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

ok, here's the deal, i don't really talk in forums much but this morning i did the ever loved, "the cleaning out of all the crap" (pardon me but it is). you know the routine, sifting thru everything, deleting those stale cookies(that always leave a nasty taste), removing those errant programs that sneak in.took me a few hours this time.they sure are getting sneaky. and it's getting worse. seems there is always more-cuz there is! even the "spyware" removals and uninstallers leave programs and cookies. and not just one or two. several- apiece!...part 2 to come...
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lordbarton
Reply #1 Friday, January 30, 2004 5:22 PM
part 2-i knew i probably didn't get all of them. and i mean ALL of them.does the average person really know what and HOW many little bugs and tracking devices are watching them? i doubt it because they'd be shocked. anyway i wouldn't recomend this to anybody but i did a search a got a "freebie" off the internet.(experament- like i said, i don't recomend it. but this particular brand would have the name "duke" if it where a person.i remind you that this is after i spent a couple hours "debugging" my machine.177 is what it came up with.and it left about 5 of it's own.the piont of all this ...

lordbarton
Reply #2 Friday, January 30, 2004 5:36 PM
before i quit my rambling i want to remind everybody and let those in on this if they didn't know-literally 90%+ web browsers and pages add a cookie or program in some way- yes, even just touching a page is a cookie. don't even look at a banner.now when all this was done i got a pop-up. not your ordinary pop-up. it was a special one.it said '"MR.DOOM" has infected your computer.click here for a quick scan"(scam) but there was no close button. the window got huge. almost so that i couldn't use the taskbar.whoever that was , was pretty good. i could very well see my wife pushing that button. remind them too.(about the spies & "MR.DOOM"'

lordbarton
Reply #3 Friday, January 30, 2004 5:40 PM
by the way, wincustomize is pretty darn good it's the ONLY place i will get anything and remember to really dig deep

lordbarton
Reply #4 Friday, January 30, 2004 5:59 PM
(and some cookies are ok) chocolate chip, peanut butter. no, really they are

Jafo
Reply #5 Friday, January 30, 2004 6:06 PM
Let's keep this to the one thread.....mmmmkay?....

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