Tim wrote:
This bug is evil! somehow it got downloaded on my computer withought
my knowledge. I'm no geek so I don't know what all it does, but
anyting you click on a search engine link, you get an automatic re-
direct to ad popups, so you have to cut and paste a link into the
browser and then you *might* get to where you're wanting to go. That
is IF it will load at all. Spybot, Ad-ware, Mal-ware,... From what I
gather, all leading anti-bug software companies have been caught off
guard by this thing and don't have much to fight it off....yet. Oh,
and another thing, is that if you try to run good anti-virus, it will
block them. you have no access to updates, and trying to get them to
run is usless. Also if one tries to back your system up with a reverse
start up date, well, you can't do that either. These jerks have pretty
well thought of everything.

Only recourse I had was to take it to the local geek and reload
windows.

Could Mac be the answer? EH, they'll probably get those too.

But my oldest son says Linux....


I'm not too old of a dog to learn new tricks, but is a change over
really that necessary?

BTW, me box is full of bugs, and still at the geeks, so I'm using my
dads old dial up windows 98. Works pretty good if all you want to do
is gawk around and make an occasional post.


You need to set up and use reliable anti-malware software. It usually is
contained in the anti-vi/ security suites.

The schittheads who develop and launch these damned spyware, virus and
other obnoxious problems have concentrated on Windows machines because
they have by far been the biggest target of opportunity. But that
doesn't mean MAC machines are ignored...they just don't get as much
attention from the schitthead.

I'm running Windows VISTA and MAC 10.5 and I run Windows XP Pro on my
MAC, too, when necessary. If I were starting from scratch, I'd probably
go with the new MACs. I've "adjusted" to using a MAC. On the surface, it
is fairly easy to learn, but it does a lot of things completely
differently than you are used to doing them on a Windows machine. If I
sell off my Windows VISTA machine, which I do like a lot, I probably
will buy an iMAC.