Grisoft’s AVG virus software is free for home users. Now Grisoft also has free spyware removal software. So there’s no reason not to keep your data safe. Virus and spyware are the major reasons why people have to have their hard drive reformatted every year. This is an unneccesary waste of time and money, not [...]

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Here’s an article. about the first North American to plead guilty of herding zombies–I love the terminology, almost like a bad horror movie. A zombie herder is a hacker/spyware installer who installs spyware on computers. The spyware turns the computer into part of a botnet, a group of computers linked together which serve porn or [...]

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You probably have spyware and malware on your computer. Most people do. You get it when you visit certain websites or when you download games and music. The games and music come bundled with a lot of other programs that run in your computer. These programs run constantly on your computer and are difficult to [...]

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A couple of months ago, I came across a pornography netbot. It was exciting–and scary–to see. Right here in Calgary a computer on was on an illegal botnet. Without my client’s knowledge or permission, her computer had turned into a zombie. It was serving pornography to the netbot’s customers at the expense of my client. [...]

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Yesterday I was at a client’s house to remove spyware. She had four extra toolbars in her Internet Explorer browser window, in addition to the ones that are part of Internet Explorer. One was Yahoo’s toolbar, another, Google’s. Two others were Mywaysearch and Globalsearch. These last two were adware and spyware. They installed into Internet [...]

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