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My Brush With Spyware
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007“The ancestor of every action is a thought.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Last week, my computer came to a complete standstill. It was brutal. I watched as the life was slowly sucked out of it with no explanation whatsoever. Then little by little, within a few hours I couldn’t even open a single program. It was kaput. I panicked and put in a 911 call to Mr. Red Hot Copy, my husband, John. Now John isn’t about to let me get away lecture -free. He explains to me that I need to get rid of all the spyware from my system. Spyware?! I didn’t ask for any spyware. How could I have such a thing? Well, it turned out my system was loaded with it. We hired a computer geek (I mean this affectionately) to come out and operate. Boy did I get a lesson about computer maintenance. Here’s what I found out.
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