Great way to prevent spyware and other naughty things from entering your PC

[Spilchy]

I have found a great link to help further prevent spyware and evilness from hijacking your PC.

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

I insatlled that HOSTS file along with Spybot and SpywareBlaster. When I ran it, I found a few pieces of spyware that I had no idea I had and I'm pretty tech savy.

If you insatll the HOSTS file, you'll get all of the advertisements that pop up in web pages like on MSN and CNN, etc.. blocked. You'll see if you install it.

This is great!

Be sure to read all the instructions and follow what they say. If you are NOT tech savy, I would refrain from doing this unless you get help.

I take no responsibility if you whack out your machine

[xflawless]

Looks good ... I will check it out. Another good tip to prevent spyware, get rid of internet explorer. Mozilla Firefox is a web browser based on netscape if I remember correctly. It's got a built-in popup blocker thats almost flawless. Its also very powerful because you can install external plugins of all sorts. Check it out at http://www.getfirefox.com

[Dave N]

What's spyware?

What's a virus?

What's a popup ad?

I never had any of those on my iBook...


(OK, I admit, there were a few popups that found their way around Safari's blocker a while back, but Apple fixed that a few weeks ago)

[Spilchy]

Originally posted by Dave N
What's spyware?

What's a virus?

What's a popup ad?

I never had any of those on my iBook...


(OK, I admit, there were a few popups that found their way around Safari's blocker a while back, but Apple fixed that a few weeks ago)

Agreed

Some of us need to be tied to a PC

[butchdave]

I found the following forum to be very useful when we had a virus variant that no one had added to the virus list, and it was downloading through spyware...

Majorgeeks