Re: WW II Forum.


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Posted by Keith in Washington on Thursday, November 03, 2005 at 0:09AM :

In Reply to: WW II Forum. posted by Ugg on Wednesday, November 02, 2005 at 11:31PM :

It is because you have a PC and people write virus, adware and spyware for them. You also need a good firewall and clean your computer of spy ware and etc very often. Get a good pop up blocker. Best thing is to avoid sites that dump stuff on your computer. Delete all of your cookies and temp internet files often. Check the directories that your cookies and temp files are in after you run a delete as you will often find spy ware there (use something like Adware to scan your hard drives). Run Adware or Microsoft's new program for cleaning your computer. Do it now and often. I happen to have the ability to block any installs on my home computer. All installs on it require a user id and password to finish. I use to scan my work computer daily to weekly until the firewall became quite good.

My daughter just dumped her 1 1/2 year old Dell as she could not keep it clean and the junk people dumped on it just made it usless speed wise. She went to a Mac and she is happy as a clam as no more crap.

Evil people seem not to spend as much time attacking Mac as they are not Pissed at Apple and there is not nearly as many so they do not get as big a bang for the buck.

Unless you are forced into a dial up service. Dump AOL. You do not really need a service like that all they really supply is an email account which can be gotten many places for free and then they fill you up with adds and place trackers on your computer. Get DSL or a cable service for internet if available and get out of the dark ages.

I happen to use Earthlink for internet connection and nothing else. I do not use AOL, MSN or any other "service" site like them. They exist by advertizing and tracking your internet prefrences and Popping adds based on the sites, pages and things you look at. Be careful of the sites you visit. I often will clean my computer then visit a site that I think may have given me stuff. I then scan the computer and see what shows up. It is really interesting what spyware some sites dump on you. Once I know a site is placing spyware or other goodies I never go back if possible.



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