This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------EB0F888B44D298EE904F0636 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Patrick: Thanks. I too, was a system analyst, and took your suggestion. I downloaded the software (free) executed it, and found (and removed) 11 spyware programs!! Thanks for letting us Monroe County List members in on this nuisance. Patrick Kenney wrote: > Brief description of Spyware: > it is software that is transparently installed onto your computer without > your knowledge, typically part of a freeware installation, but also can be > the result of accessing a web page, spyware is not detected by anti-virus > software. Additionally, spyware sends information about web sites you have > visited and often your personal information on your computer to advertisers > and is sold to other advertisers... for a more detailed explanation of > spyware you can visit the url below... > I usually delete this kind of stuff, but I decided to check it out... this > is a good utility... some of you know I am a programmer by trade, and I have > wrote my own utilities to do what this one does already... > I highly recommend this utility to anyone, follow the instructions on the > web page and read the *.txt files in the downloaded zip file before > installing & you will have no trouble with it... > In addition, I would encourage letters to your local legislators, > congressmen etc, to pursue internet regulation of utilities such as > advertising software or ANY SOFTWARE that is installed onto your computer > transparently & unknown... there is more of this going on than you can > imagine, and is the source of many software conflicts & undue grief... I > would say it is a safe bet that everyone of you have a piece of spyware on > your computer that this utility will identify and give you the option of > removing... "Much to my surprise; I myself had one as well!" > Best Regards, > Patrick > > http://www.lavasoft.de --------------EB0F888B44D298EE904F0636 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="backjudge1.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for John C. Dawson Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="backjudge1.vcf" begin:vcard n:Dawson;John x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.geocities.com/cok11wv adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:backjudge1@centuryinter.net title:11th West Virginia Infantry x-mozilla-cpt:;-21696 fn:11th West Virginia Infantry end:vcard --------------EB0F888B44D298EE904F0636--