[citw150] Re: CITW 150 L3Q5
- From: Michael Tanner <mtanner581@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: citw150@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:54:01 -0500
GJS1LCC wrote:
One of the societal issues mentioned in the textbook was Adware. My
home PC had several Adware files in it. They always showed up when I
did a scandisk or disk check. They either had to be deleted or
quarantined. "Adware is any software application in which advertising
banners are displayed while a program is running" according to
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci521293,00.html .
Adware is very intrusive and annoying. It can include a code that
tracks personal information and passes them on to a third party.
Adware is also known as Freeware. It does not cost a thing, except
privacy. If your personal information is stored somewhere on your hard
drive, your private stuff can be transmitted by the Internet back to
advertisers in order to send you more advertising. They call it market
research. "Adware Gator is your smart online companion that fills out
forms and remembers passwords" according to
http://www.pchell.com/support/spyware.shtml . Adware Gator falls into
a group of software known as Spyware. It sends information about
buying habits and surfing habits to third party advertisers who pass
it along even further. Gator company has recently changed their name
to Claria. The http://www.pchell.com/support/spyware.shtml website has
great information on how to remove Gator. However, even if you remove
Gator, you still may be stuck with GAIN (Gator Advertiser Information
Network) software installed. The PC Hell website states that "GAIN
helps keep many popular software applications and services free in
exchange for delivering ads, information, and software on all of the
websites that you view". GAIN can only be removed by unistalling the
GAIN supported application. It ca nnot be unistalled directly. In my
case, I have no idea what I downloaded to get GAIN. I am still
searching for it. Another good site for definitions and removal tips is
http://www.adware.info/.
*Gloria J. Strahan *
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves
himself. - Josh Billings
gjs1lcc@xxxxxxxxx
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Adware and spyware can be very frustrating. Three years ago, my pc was
crippled by over 1000 pieces. It cost me a relatively inexpensive
$70.00 to have it corrected. Since then I run complete virus, adware
and spyware scans every month and have not had a problem since. I use
AVG Free as my virus scanner, Adaware SE as my adware killer and Spybot
Search and Destroy to deal with spyware. I run all three because not
just one will pick up everything. I recently had a friend at work who's
computer had slowed to a snail's pace when her anti-virus software went
out of date. It was so bad that she was unable to update the anti-viurs
software, so I gave her a CD with the three programs I mentioned. She
went home and had it running normally that evening. If you're
interested, AVG Free can be downloaded at http://free.grisoft.com and
both Adaware SE and Spybot S&D can be downloaded at http://www.download.com.
Michael Tanner
mtanner581@xxxxxxxxxxx
...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I
react to it.
Chuck Swindoll
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