SecurityRatty: Great series of articles on stayin safe online with Vista

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Great series of articles on stayin safe online with Vista

2008-06-12 17:50:57 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog

I like this ladies series of articles.
It would benefit you to read em, even if you are not using Vista.

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Protecting Against Spyware In Vista Part I

Syware and adware programs usually come as a part of legitimate shareware, but hide themselves in such a way that you do not always know when they are being installed. They just sit in the background and drain system resources, either displaying advertisements or worse, reporting system activity back to a central location. Marketers use information gathered from these programs to target pop-up ads and spam.