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Originally posted by Stormymystic:
for one you stole my topic......
and 2 i have been having sim probs, i have a deect agent that is showing me all kinds of spyware...what is it? how do i sto it, and why are there things on here i have never heard of or seen before????
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"I" is a capital letter 
As to your questions:
Spyware is software that sends information about your computer and internet usage patterns to 3rd parties without your knowledge or permission. Most of it is generally harmless - they only want data for advertising and crap like that. But of course it is an invasion of your privacy and is damn annoying. There are things there that you haven't heard of or seen before because they install themselves when you visit certain sites. Get rid of everything that is picked up by ad-aware or spybot - search and destroy as dangerous. That's how you get rid of them - run spy detection software and anything it picks up as dangerous can probably be safely deleted.
I don't know what "sto" means. 
[ 04-23-2003, 12:17 PM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]
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