I like to consider myself a pretty “cool” mom, as moms go, but when I sat down at my computer one day and was greeted by a wide assortment of uncouth and explicit images frozen in a grotesque array all over my screen, my “cool” took a long vacation and my 15-year old son took the hot seat. It wasn’t until my computer had finally rebooted in the midst of my mad-mother interrogation that the first part of the story of my son’s unsavory escapades finally came out, along with his admittance of downloading some program called “WinLocator.”
It took another hour of shaming though, for me to get the information that really sent my son to the dog-house. Not only had he been browsing pornographic sites and picked up a bug that damaged our computer, he had stolen and used my credit card on those same sites to get “insider’s access!” So not only was I left trying to figure out how to reverse WinLocator’s effects and restore my computer to its former state of functional and moral cleanliness, but now had the added stress of having to ensure that my credit card information hadn’t been stolen as well.
Lucky for my son, it hadn’t. Though that news did not diminish the length of his grounding or the restriction of his computer privileges in any way, let me tell you!
Once I’d finally cooled down enough to set about rectifying the situation, I called my techie brother up to ask him if he knew anything about it. He told me that WinLocator was an adware program that is usually installed by a drive-by download when visiting sites with adult-related material. The kicker is that the affected user actually has to consent to being bombarded with pop ups in exchange for using the newly installed pornographic search toolbar, meaning that “READ THE FINE PRINT” was added to the growing list of conversations that I obviously needed to have with my son.
Much to my annoyance, my brother found the situation quite humorous, but nonetheless reassured me that it was an easy fix. All I needed to do was download Spyzooka, and I could rest assured that at least the malicious programs part of this story would never need repeating, because Spyzooka guarantees 100% removal of all malicious software.
I know I’m not the only mom out there with horny teenagers up to no good. Get a free scan from Spyzooka at http://www.spyzooka.com. It might not hurt to see what’s found its way onto YOUR computer!
It took another hour of shaming though, for me to get the information that really sent my son to the dog-house. Not only had he been browsing pornographic sites and picked up a bug that damaged our computer, he had stolen and used my credit card on those same sites to get “insider’s access!” So not only was I left trying to figure out how to reverse WinLocator’s effects and restore my computer to its former state of functional and moral cleanliness, but now had the added stress of having to ensure that my credit card information hadn’t been stolen as well.
Lucky for my son, it hadn’t. Though that news did not diminish the length of his grounding or the restriction of his computer privileges in any way, let me tell you!
Once I’d finally cooled down enough to set about rectifying the situation, I called my techie brother up to ask him if he knew anything about it. He told me that WinLocator was an adware program that is usually installed by a drive-by download when visiting sites with adult-related material. The kicker is that the affected user actually has to consent to being bombarded with pop ups in exchange for using the newly installed pornographic search toolbar, meaning that “READ THE FINE PRINT” was added to the growing list of conversations that I obviously needed to have with my son.
Much to my annoyance, my brother found the situation quite humorous, but nonetheless reassured me that it was an easy fix. All I needed to do was download Spyzooka, and I could rest assured that at least the malicious programs part of this story would never need repeating, because Spyzooka guarantees 100% removal of all malicious software.
I know I’m not the only mom out there with horny teenagers up to no good. Get a free scan from Spyzooka at http://www.spyzooka.com. It might not hurt to see what’s found its way onto YOUR computer!
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