OMG Spyware! O_O

Started by Charizard_Fire_God November 14th, 2005 5:36 PM
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What has been your worst spyware experience ever?

Back on dialup, I somehow got infected while browsing PC... I ended up with an app that was horribly hogging my system everytime I got online and Disablin' my main active wndow all tha time... it was downloading entire packages of spyware onta my comp and once I got on it lagged so horribly that I could barely click tha disconnect button. <_<
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i've had my computer infected once with spyware....it crashed my whole system and i had to get a new hard-drive. it really sukd!!
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So one afternoon, I'm happily surfing around, until the browser just froze. Restarted it and continued for a while, but it froze again, and this time, I couldn't restart the browser. It popped up random errors when I tried to do so.

After several scans from the dynamic duo of Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D...problem solved.
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My computer used to crash several times a day because of all the spyware XD. I cleaned it up and it only crashed a couple of times a day then. Then its hard disk died. XD


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I've never had any real problem with spyware, even before I switched to Linux. The worst was when I had about 60-70 tracking cookies, and that's it.
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My brother screwed up once, had pop-ups galore. Spybot and AdAware scans in safe mode helped me clean her up. Otherwise I'm ususally pretty good.

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Well i know this is probably an ancient thread but i HAve gotta post this

My friend's comp was mega laggy and had popups everywhere

I brought my very own Spyware and Virus Destroyers along

I almost crapped myself at the end over 500 viruses and 300+ spyware

i ended up giving her my second hard drive ( i have 2 on my computer just incase)
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