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28th September 2002, 03:14 PM
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Reps: 155 (power: 0) | | | How can you tell if someone has download spyware on your computer?
Or has backdoors into your systems?
I have firewalls, virus protectors, etc. But someone was still able to get into my system and steal credit card info, SS#, etc.
How can I check on this?
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28th September 2002, 03:16 PM
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Reps: 61 (power: 0) | | | well alot of times you can't, but if you use a Firewall and good Antivirus, you should be ok, But if you are talking about just spyware, I think you should download a program called Ad-aware it will help you alot. goto google.com and search for Ad-aware.
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28th September 2002, 03:18 PM
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28th September 2002, 03:18 PM
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lol i was to lazy to get the url.
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28th September 2002, 03:19 PM
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28th September 2002, 03:21 PM
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28th September 2002, 03:26 PM
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28th September 2002, 03:28 PM
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28th September 2002, 03:31 PM
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Reps: 155 (power: 0) | | | Now what will happen when this is done, and there IS spyware on my PC... will this program automatically remove it?
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28th September 2002, 03:38 PM
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Reps: 61 (power: 0) | | | ok start the program there will be check boxes, check both of the boxes under Scan Registry, and under scan Drive, check C (fixed), then click scan. after it scans it will give you a list of the spyware check the boxes and click continue, and it will ask you if you want to delete the files click yes.
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