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> One of my friends had a bad infection from gator spyware and pest patrol
> was the only one so far that prevented gator from coming back.
The worst case I ever saw involved a colleague from work and Gator, on a
virtually pristine new WinME machine (only a couple of months old).
It took 6 hours to boot, and every single mouse click took 10-15 minutes
to register.
On top of that, it had trashed the registry making it impossible to boot
fully without reverting to a backup. When we eventually got the machine
booted, Spybot S&D had it sorted in seconds.
He learned his lesson, and has a firewall, AV (updated regularly), and
scans for spyware on a regular basis.
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> One of my friends had a bad infection from gator spyware and pest patrol
> was the only one so far that prevented gator from coming back.
The worst case I ever saw involved a colleague from work and Gator, on a
virtually pristine new WinME machine (only a couple of months old).
It took 6 hours to boot, and every single mouse click took 10-15 minutes
to register.
On top of that, it had trashed the registry making it impossible to boot
fully without reverting to a backup. When we eventually got the machine
booted, Spybot S&D had it sorted in seconds.
He learned his lesson, and has a firewall, AV (updated regularly), and
scans for spyware on a regular basis.
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