On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:19:31 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Eisboch" wrote in message
m...
Thanks for all the suggestions and recommendations. Looks like I got it
cleaned up and working ok again.

Harry ... thanks for the Spy Doctor recommendation. It did the trick.

Eisboch




I was thinking about the recent spyware problems I had. As previously
posted, I was bragging about how I had used various computers for years
without virus or spyware protection and never had any problems.
I've had this particular laptop for over a year hooked to Adelphia for an
ISP and never had any problems.
Then suddenly, it got trashed with spyware stuff in a matter of a couple of
days.

It just dawned on me that the problems started almost to the day that we got
a notice that we may experience some network difficulties and/or brief
outages because the Adelphia network was being taken over by Comcast who
bought Adelphia a while back. They were doing something with existing
Adelphia customers to integrate it into Comcast.

I wonder if that had anything to do with the sudden onset of spyware stuff.
Maybe Adelphia's service was better protected?

Eisboch


I use the McAfee suite, including a firewall, and Mailwasher. For the
internet, I use Mozilla 99% of the time, going to IE only when a site isn't
supported by Mozilla. For a newsreader, I use Agent 1.9 which is very
simple to set up and use. I've never (knock on wood) had a virus on my
computer.

Maybe I've just been lucky.