My Spyware Nightmare, Your Lesson
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How
I lost my wife's brand new computer to Spyware
A
couple of years ago I had an unpleasant
encounter with spyware. Here is my story. My wife had just enrolled in
school and needed a computer for her school work. We had an older HP
machine. I believe it was a Pentium II. It worked pretty well, though a
little slow. I wanted us to get another HP, but she wanted an eMachine.
Her cousin had one and she thought it was good. I did not like them a
lot and did not think highly of them. She was bent on having one so we
bought one.
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With the arrival of
the new computer, the HP was
quickly abandoned. I was pretty much the only one that used it. Not
because of my disdain for eMachines, but because the HP was more in a
central location. Our three boys loved the new machine and spent quite
some time on it. I was eventually won over to the eMachine and I must
confess, it turned out to perform excellently well. It was good on
speed and the resolution was great.
Several months down the road, I noticed how the
new computer was slowing down. I knew in my mind it was the dumb,
stupid, no-good eMachine. They just were no good. And then on a second
thought I felt it was the dial up connection. But I soon realized that
it was also slow when I was offline. It was taking long to open up
applications and even longer to load web pages. I also
noticed there were strange windows opening up at the most
awkward times. Some of the pages were to sites I would not
ordinarily visit. May be the boys are going to places that we don't
know about. As a concerned parent, I asked them and they
promptly denied. I was still not sure they didn’t. They were
teenagers.
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As time passed, it became more difficult to do
anything on the eMachine. We gradually migrated back to the HP. For a
while I did not bother to do anything about it because I was still
furious about her choice of the eMachine. And since the old HP still
worked, there was no immediate need to find out what was wrong with it.
A couple of months down the road I was ready to
find out what the problem was. I started asking questions and doing
queries on Google. I was encouraged to get a good popup blocker. I did
and it did not do much. That computer was far gone and corrupted. I had
waited too long. I was not sure what was going on and did not know
where to ask. The warrantee on the computer had also expired the
previous month.
One afternoon, I turned the computer on to take
another look and was greeted by a blank screen. The monitor had also
quit I said to myself. Now I knew almost for sure it was the no-good
eMachine. They were really no good. My wife disagreed. But to be sure,
I hooked the monitor up to the HP and it came alive. So it
wasn’t the eMachine after all. I was a little embarrassed but
still mad.
I reconnected the monitor and rebooted and was
again faced by a blank screen. The following week, I took the CPU for
repairs and they told me the computer was damaged beyond repairs. I
retrieved it and took it to a second repairman and it never came back.
Next time I went to check on it, the repairman had moved with no
forwarding address.
You know, lightening they say does not strike the
same spot twice. But Spyware is different. It can strike the
same spot many times. Early 2006, I bought another computer, having out
grown the HP. Months latter, I noticed the same exact symptoms that
ruined the eMachine. The slow down, the multiple pop-ups, the redirects
to undesirable websites, they were all there. This time I did not wait.
That afternoon I was frantic. I began searching for a quick answer. It
was not until late that night that I found a Ad Aware SE. And once I
found the right solution, spyware was no longer an issue to me.
Spyware can make your online experience a
nightmare if you are not forward thinking.
When you start asking:
Why is my brand new computer slowing down to a
crawl?
Why is it taking so long to load a basic word processor?
Why do I have so many pop-ups? Where are they coming from?
Why do I keep being sent to places I did not ask to go?
Where are these embarrassing pop-ups coming from? I never
visit sites like that,
You can be sure that it is not your eMachine. It
is mostly likely some spyware is on the prowl.
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applied is power over malware. You can enhance your knowledge of adware
and spyware and other malicious softwares such as dialers and browser
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