On Wednesday 30 June 2004 03:03, William Beaty wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > Computer literate people who can describe "what particular spyware" this > > is would never contact me in the first place. They would fix the problem > > on their own. They would realize it cannot be my fault. > > That's not what happened to me two months ago. > > I had a spyware infection, caught from banner ads from a service I was > using. This was a new experience. It took me a day to figure out how it > happened. Fortunately someone told me "most people receive spyware > infections all the time; spybot and ad-aware are the usual freeware tools > for cleaning ms IE browser." Without that clue I would have wasted hours > or days of time. > > It's probably pretty safe to say such a thing to a non-techie, since they > won't know how to track down and upload spybot and ad-aware. It's the > equivalent to revealing that Norton is a supplier of antivirus products. > > (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) > William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://amasci.com > EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair > Seattle, WA 206-789-0775 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
that is why I use a linux browser in a linux system for all browsing and all e-mail. Spyware and virii are a thing the infects others systems and not mine. Good for me! Good for my correspondents! .......and I can write to anybody and recieve letters from same without danger of any windows weaknesses rubbing off. Standing Bear.
