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Old October 4th, 2005
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Default A Small Point

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A small point to make, though it may or may not be relevant. If Longroad PC is relatively new it may have been sold to him with pre-installed spyware.

I found pre-installed spyware on my current PC, which is a few days off its third birthday, which my anti-spyware apps failed to find. I was visually checking my "C" drive when found eight spyware items in all I then deleted them. Spybot, one of my anti-spyware apps, then found the registry entries for these items and deleted them also.

I guess, what I am saying that spyware can get onto your PC other than those that seem obvious to novices, methods such as being pre-installed, installing free or shareware apps, browsing web pages, fly by downloads, following unknown URL links, etc. Spyware writers, and some of them work for organised criminals, are constantly trying to find new ways of getting their rubbish onto your PC

LW Pro does not contain spyware or adware, LW Basic contains nagware, i.e. a pop-up that ask you to upgrade to Pro (this helps people who get their LW from scam sites who believe they were buying LW Pro). So apart from that LW and especially LW Pro is definitely clean.

I would suggest, as I previously did with another AOL user, that you ask AOL helpline to help you to configure their anti-spyware app to ignore LW. If they refuse then install Spybot, Adaware and MS Anti-Spyware, these apps are all free and together they will keep your PC spyware free.




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