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This topic was created in the How would you make this site better? forum by phoenix_rising on Saturday, June 28, 2003 and has 22 replies.

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@dxpnet
dxpnet account21 Years500+ Posts

i have heard of "hidden" programs that get installed on your computer that serve popup ads over other people's sites.

gator is the main one that comes to mind.

you should check out Ad-aware. they have a program that searches your computer for these spyware programs.

hope this helps 🙂

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

bastard gator!!

I really appreciate the help. I will check out the link. What if I find one? I really don't like the sound of "spyware", etc. Not that I've been anywhere incriminating...*coughliterotica.comcough*...lol

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@Espernaut
21 Years1,000+ Posts

DXP's correct. Ad-ware is very good. It's free & easy to use. (there's a pro version, but the free one is sufficient)
Spyware mainly collects data (w/o your consent) and sends it back to the companies. I assume you later get bombarded with unwanted emails,etc.

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

Thanks, both of you. With that particular site, they seem to leave me alone (this is starting to sounds really bad...lol, anyway....) it's the only one if it's kind that I OCCASIONALLY visit, because of that fact.

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

I have noticed that too Espernaut. Especially Astrology.com, and you know, they never used to. Just in the last year or so the volume of ads I have to close has grown to like eighteen trillion. I pulled that number out of the sky, but it *feels* like that many. I hate it.

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

Hola!

Okay. I'm confused. I went to the ad-aware site, but I didn't see any place to actually download the spyware-detector-thingy.

Muchachos! Gracias, pero ayuda me, por favor. Estoy muy loco, y tengo mucho confusion-o.

(Is that right Morgan?? Gawd...it's been like five years since I've had Espanol...)