Flaagg wrote:
> One of my evil children was surfin the web and ran across a site that
> installed some POS 'PC Guard' on my machine. I uninstalled the software,
> but it left behind phoney error messages popping up every few hours on
> the desktop and the taskbar. I couldn't get rid of them no matter what I
> tried.
>
> Just about to re-install the OS, and someone sends me Microsoft's
> Antispyware Beta (I couldn't dload the thing from the MS site because my
> Windows key is not recognized by MS for some reason...heh).
>
> One scan with this thing, and no more popups. It claims to have wiped
> out 2 other malicious proggies that AdAware missed, too. Microsoft does
> something right for a change.
>
> I wonder who they stole the code from.
>
And yet, M$'s software doesnt catch all either. Thats why you shouldnt
rely on one single solution, if you scan with M$, adaware, and SBSD,
each will pick up ****ware the others didnt.
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