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Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc ----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a
----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes are made and the byline, copyright, and theresource box below is included. ----------------------------------------------------------Spyware is Watching You By Stephen BucaroAdvertising is getting far too intrusive and invasive.Advertisers that are weak in ethics, and strong in grabbingfor money, don't see a problem with installing spy programson your computer without your knowledge.In Internet Explorer's "Tools" menu, select "InternetOptions...". On the "Security tab" click on the "Customlevel..." button. If you don't have the "Disable" or the"Prompt" radio button set next to "Download ActiveXcontrols", I can almost guarantee that someone hasinstalled a spy program on your computer and is monitoringyour web browsing activities.Your Web surfing is being tracked and the data is beingsold to third parties. These thieves make big moneyselling your profile to companies who then target you foradvertising. Popup advertisements appear even when youvisit web sites that don't use popup windows. The Lavasoft company keeps a reference database of all spyprograms and provides a free Windows program that scansyour hard drive and registry for spy programs. TheirAd-aware program lets you remove the spy programs fromyour computer.At Lavasoft's website www.lavasoft.com select "Download"in the "Support" menu. On the Download page scroll downto "Full install" and click on a download source, (iedownload.com). This will download the 1.45 Mb file aaw6.exe.Double-click on aaw6.exe to execute the installationprogram (with Windows 2000, first login as Administrator).The installation program puts an icon for Ad-aware on yourdesk top.Double click on the icon to execute Ad-aware. In theAd-aware program window, click on the [Scan now] button.On the "Preparing system scan" page click on the [Next]button.Ad-aware takes a few minutes to scan your hard drive andregistry for spy programs and data tracking cookies. Onmy system it returned the results:44 objects recognized1 Registry key identified43 files identifiedWhen the scanning is complete, click on the [Next] button.This takes you to the "scanning results page" whichdisplays a list of objects found. One object found on mycomputer was "Alexa Data Miner". Then click on the [next]button. A dialog box appears asking if you want to removethe objects. Click on the [OK] button to delete the spyobjects.The free Ad-aware Standard Edition removes spy softwareand data tracking cookies from your system. The $27.00Ad-aware Plus Edition adds real-time monitoring andblocking to the program. Not only can you remove spyprograms from your computer, but you can also BLOCK themfrom invading your system in the first place! I foundAd-aware easy to install and use, and very effective.----------------------------------------------------------Resource Box:Copyright(C)2002 Bucaro TecHelp. To learn how to maintainyour computer and use it more effectively to design a Website and make money on the Web visithttp://bucarotechelp.comTo subscribe to Bucaro TecHelp Newsletter Send a blankemail to mailto:bucarotechelp-subscribe@topica.com----------------------------------------------------------
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