"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Yup. That was me. And 4 days after I said it my computer at home
picked up some kind of spyware thing. I keep getting pop-ups trying to
sell me everything from cars to vacations to dates with beautiful,
single women. It's not porn crap or anything ... just annoying junk. I
went to Microsofts's Security Website and did an on-line scan and fix
doober. It found and corrected a worm, but there was one file it said
it could not fix. The computer ran ok for a while, then the stupid
pop-ups started all over again. I adjusted the pop-up blocker to
prevent *any* pop-ups, but they still come through.

I'll take it to a computer shop and let them clean it up.

Eisboch

Spyware Doctor. It will clean that one off, run in the background, and
update itself. Works for me.

Thanks. It's not a huge issue, but more of a pain. My prior experiences
of trying various monitoring and protection software like Norton and
others were that they bogged the computer down sometimes and were
constantly requiring you to upgrade, download, or something.

The problem with just saying "Norton" is that there's more than one product.
The suite is a resource pig. The straight AV product is pretty lean. And, if
you are more than slightly aware of its maintenance needs, you've probably
messed with the settings. When it's set up right, it updates itself in the
background. At most, you'll sometimes see a brief message saying "I just
updated and all is cool".

Combine this with the free version of ZoneAlarm (www.zonelabs.com), and your
machine is solid. You will not notice the minimal resource usage.

There's one more reason why some users think their machines are being
"bogged down". You need to turn OFF email monitoring in Norton. It's
redundant, because if you open an email and try to run or save an
attachment, THAT is when it gets scanned a 2nd time. Inbound scanning would
be the first time, but there's no reason to do it. It definitely slows down
Outlook Express, Outlook, and the Mozilla products.