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Safe Surfing

I'm taking my trusty notebook down for re-install because it is real messed up. I don't know what I downloaded, or from where, but I'm going to be much more careful when I visit the porn sites from now on. When I get done re-installing, hopefully I'll be able to import all me email with no problems, and I don't forget any of my pirated software in the switch. And I really hope I haven't lost my recovery disks.

On the other hand, if everything goes south, it's a great excuse to buy a new computer. If you don't hear from me for a while I'm out shopping.

UPDATE: Before re-installing I decided to download the latest Ad-aware reflist from Lavasoft. I re-ran ad-aware and found there were 186 nasty bad things on my computer. I guess I should be doing this more often, and more importantly, I've deleted the peer to peer software I had installed a while back, just about the time all my troubles began. I guess I've seen my last Simpsons episode for a while.

Comments

Ad Aware misses a lot, try Spybot Search & Destroy. It is thorough, free, and may fix your problem without you needing to reinstall.

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