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The End
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Remove Spyware
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We are fortunate to have a happy ending to this story however the removal process was not easy and in many cases all the data on the computer must be erased and the Operating System has to be reinstalled. Here are some good practices to prevent this from happening to you:
* Use Firefox.This is a very secure internet browser and its very hard to hijack.You can download firefox from here
* Use a limited user account. You can create a special user account for installing applications and making modifications to the operating system which you can call Admin and every time you need to install something you can logoff and switch to the administrator account. This way there will be nothing that will install without your knowledge.
* Do not download freeware programs before doing a search on Google for the name of that application associated with the word spyware.
* Have an antispyware program installed and do a full system scan weekly. Do not exaggerate with the number of security programs that you install. There is such a thing as too much security.
* Have an antivirus and a firewall installed.If you don't have a antivirus of your own you can download AVG Free: http://free.grisoft.com . For a free firewall windows has one built in but if you want more you can use Zone Alarm completely free.
Lets watch now the last movie:
We were able to see that the system is fast again, there is no rundll32.exe in the task manager anymore, Internet explorer loads to its default MSN page, there are no more toolbars visible although we still have some left overs from the spyware in the menu however that will not affect our browsing. We can switch to whatever page we want to and no pop-ups are coming up anymore. Issue resolved.
 
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Submitted by Paul Ionescu
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