By Will Sturgeon
Published: Wednesday 19 January 2005
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Name
Anonymous
Location
Midlands
Occupation
IT Developer
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I had cause to examine a friend's machine at the weekend which had got so bad it wouldn't run Norton AV or open a Word document.
I ran two adware removal/blocking tools (Lavasoft AdAware & SpyBot S&D) and found over 400 items of malware (not including cookies).
The source? The Google and Yahoo! pop-up blocking toolbars the user had loaded to 'protect himself'. Be warned...
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I had cause to examine a friend's machine at the w...
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Paul, your comments about not having any virus or ...
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These comments reveal how poorly understood the ad...
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I use Ad-Aware 6.0 to check for this stuff, and la...
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Anonymous
I built two PC's recently, both identical in every...
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