I’d like to think I’m kind of computer savvy. I guess if I was, I wouldn’t have caught .FindSpy. Then again, I was in the know enough to know I was infected with something when my computer’s wallpaper disappeared and was replaced with advertisements saying that I was infected with spyware and I needed to download some antispyware program I never heard of. I’ve never seen anything like this, but I figured it probably was the program I was infected with doing the advertising. The cartoon guy in the trench coat was kind of cute, though.
My computer had the other markers of being infected with adware. It ran slowly, VERY slowly. My internet browsers didn’t quite work right. Both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox would take forever to load, and sometimes they’d just blink out. Yep, this is pretty ugly. I knew also that there was a good chance that some hacker out there might be looking at my stuff, so I got right on to scanning. As it turns out, my free program didn’t work so well. It found it well enough, but it couldn’t remove it.
It had done this once before, so I decided it was time to buy a good program. After a little shopping around, I found SpyZooka. What really set it apart for me was that they stay up to date, instead of updating about every week or so. I downloaded it, ran it, and my problems were over. I wouldn’t dream of replacing it!
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