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« on: 2004-08-08, 15:03 »
I've been in the spyware-removal business for my in-laws for nearly a year now, and I've run across this FAQ in several different forms. It's a highly-useful, very complete step-by-step process on how to remove 99% of the crap that installs itself through IE on Windows systems.

http://www.io.com/~cwagner/spyware.html

That's the original version, and I'm definately going to keep it bookmarked.
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« Reply #1 on: 2004-08-08, 19:44 »
Praises, kudos, and props to the author. Slipgate - Laugh
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« Reply #2 on: 2004-08-09, 06:42 »
Very good article.  It also covers my method for dealing with IE.

Rule #1)  Don't use IE.
Rule #2)  If you absolutely have to use IE, disable Active-X and Java script for anything not in your trusted sites zone.
Rule #3)  LEARN HOW TO USE THE TRUSTED SITES ZONE.  It's there for a reason.

This works, trust me.  I've not had one single piece of spyware on this system, ever, and I used IE for a long time before I switched to Mozilla.
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« Reply #3 on: 2004-08-09, 06:59 »
And stop browsing untrusted pr0n sites - that'll help as well =P
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« Reply #4 on: 2004-08-09, 09:05 »
Quote from: Tekhead
untrusted pr0n sites
You're implying there's such a thing as a trustworthy pr0n site?  Slipgate - Surprised
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