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On the note of spyware, honestly if you have SP2 installed on your Windows XP machine, you should NEVER get spyware unless you have little computer know-how or you ARE too busy surfing pr0n and click OK to the messages that basically say: "We are going to HATE F*CK your computer with spyware? Is that OK if we show you boobies? Click Yes to continue."

I've cleaned up my fair share of that stuff in the years I've worked in IT and it all comes from porn.

Well how do I say no to boobies?!

The spyware I was actually referring to is the newer stuff - SP2 is only useful in certain cases, and really only if you've got the Windows Firewall turned on. Of course that craps on a whole bunch of other network and performance issues, but at least you're safe I guess.

There's a new one going around, I forget the name, but it basically requires zero interaction from the user to be installed on your machine - basically just visit the wrong website by accident and it's there. It then does some crap to your registry and manages to set itself up as a service running in memory to the point where you've got to go into safe mode and manually delete a whole bunch of stuff and fix your registry.

Leave it to a bunch of asshole programmers to take ALL the fun out of surfing for pr0n.

Matty, what Spyware protection programs are you running?

That's just hilarious and impressive at the same time. How long did that take to do?

Thanks. It actually took no time at all. I think I was possessed while looking at Matty's original post so it all just came to me in an instant

Well how do I say no to boobies?!

The spyware I was actually referring to is the newer stuff - SP2 is only useful in certain cases, and really only if you've got the Windows Firewall turned on. Of course that craps on a whole bunch of other network and performance issues, but at least you're safe I guess.

There's a new one going around, I forget the name, but it basically requires zero interaction from the user to be installed on your machine - basically just visit the wrong website by accident and it's there. It then does some crap to your registry and manages to set itself up as a service running in memory to the point where you've got to go into safe mode and manually delete a whole bunch of stuff and fix your registry.

Leave it to a bunch of asshole programmers to take ALL the fun out of surfing for pr0n.

Matty, what Spyware protection programs are you running?

The only ones I know of are called rootkits. Even those are pretty hard to get unless you do as I mentioned above in your pr0n searching. ;)