<VV> Re: Spyware [ no Vair ]

[PatioMatt@aol.com]

Sure sounds like "Cookies" to me......just use IE's internet options / 
Cookies - delete........free too!

Matt

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> As a comment to the comment,"These Virus writers are getting very
> sophisticated," this is indeed true, but what all of us are facing is
> something relatively new called Spyware.
> Spyware is not just becoming better, it is becoming more aggressive.  
> Recently
> I had the misfortune to suffer its wrath.  I spent several days picking at 
> it
> with a scalpel before I received the help I should have had from the 
> beginning
> and I want to pass this on: www.lavasoftusa.com
> Look down on the left and there will be a download.  It's free and everyone
> should have it.
> 
> One of the main perpetrators that I have found is a company called NicTech
> Networks, Inc.  Most of the files are compiled, but I found their name.  
> When
> I called them, they even so much as admitted what they were doing and said I
> must have "clicked on a file of advertising."   Perhaps I did, but what they
> are doing is inexcusable.  Their offer to send me some "spyware removal"
> software did not materialize.
> 
> Anyway when I finished running the above lava software, it removed 218 files
> of spyware!   No wonder it was one step ahead of me all the time!!  I must
> have carved out some 20 files on my own, even after I blocked their 
> addresses
> coming in and out!
> I hope this helps so you don't have to go through the process that I did.
> Ron Byers