Posted by Neredbojias on 07/12/07 04:31

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:11:27
GMT Adrienne Boswell scribed:

> I have a good friend who asked me to come out and take a look at her
> daughter's computer because it was really slow. Spybot Search and
> Destroy came up with 1,401 malware programs and/or tracking cookies.
> The anti- virus came up with 89 viruses and trojans. I got everything
> cleaned up, installed a Hosts manager, Firefox and Opera (default).
> Then I told them that IE was off limits.
>
> Three days to fix this. Scarey.

I have good and current anti-virus software, but what are these 1401
malware programs you're talking about? Will using something like Ad-Aware
regularly prevent such things? Firefox is my favorite browser, but at
times I have to use ie (6) for various reasons.

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Neredbojias
A self-made man who worships his creator

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