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Excuse me, question about Spyware... - Darkfox - 08-21-2003
Mind me asking but everyone says Spyware is bad, I don't even know what it is lol...anybody mind filling me in with some info?
Thank you.
- urban dream - 08-21-2003
Simply put, spyware is software that takes data from your computer and sends it away through the internet without your knowledge. Most spyware is used for illegal marketing research, spamming and so on, but some spyware programs actually figure out your passwords by recording every key you strike and then send them back to the program's creator. You usually get spyware from downloading and installing some other program from the web; it's hidden within the program and you don't know it's there. This is bad because it infringes your privacy and slows down your computer. I heard that Microsoft is using some suspiciously spyware-like technologies in Windows XP.
- Darkfox - 08-21-2003
Hmm, so am I technically leading up to my computers demise by using said windows XP and Kazaa which many say is chock full 'o' spyware?
- Mad Mallard - 08-21-2003
Well at least you live in Canada, or else you'd have another potental problem by using Kazaa. By the way, get kazaa lite.
- Anus Individual 20 - 08-21-2003
Huh??! Candians get off scott free when it come to pirating U.S. stuff??
Why the hell didn't someone tell me about this sooner?!?!?!
(Goes off to the store to by a second hard drive)
- Angeteen - 08-28-2003
Here's an interesting question: does anybody know of any free software that you can download that will not only detect, but will also REMOVE those darn pieces of spyware?
- Insanity 733 - 08-29-2003
Ad Aware (www.lavasoftusa.com)
SpyBot (don't know the url)