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Every 5th Call At Dell Is Spyware-Related
prostoalex writes "Financial Express quotes a Dell executive saying that spyware is installed on roughly 90% computers out there. Right now 20% of all Dell phone support calls are spyware-related. University of Washington research this March published a moderate estimate of 5.1% PCs running spyware."
Ohh look, the sky is blue! And my water is wet!
Actually the firefox browser blocks "unrequested windows". You clicked the Microsoft look and feel image that was placed over the article and requested that window that said your computer has blocked a popup.
Funny thing, you're a retard. Mod parent down.
That's exactly what I was talking about, you retard.
The Microsoft look and feel image that popped up said that the computer had spyware.
D'oh. What an idiot.
Running Linux I've put this stuff to the back of my mind. But, I do run a VMware Windows 2000 machine for some propritary VPN RSA connection software to connect to work. It's both software (KPF) and hardware firewalled.
I keep the VM patched but never figured I need to worry much about spyware. I hardly use it for web access unless it's work related. I was wrong. I just installed AdAware and found 24 instances. Now, I guess, I'll install the others, SpyBot etc.
The best I can figure is I must of had a brain fade while tele-commuting and drifted to a few sites while working. Usually when I do that I switch to another destop and use Linux to surf. That or the work related business site I've visited loaded them.
Live and learn. It's going to really suck if Linux ever starts having problems like this or something simular. I've enjoyed the freedom since moving to Linux a few years ago. I neglected my Vmware machines though. But, not any more.