Thursday, September 17, 2009

Rogue Spyware

I've resisted putting myself out there for privacy reasons. Short of email, work, information access, research, and the occasional purchase or payments, I almost NEVER set up anything that might compromise my personal identity. Now, I have to set up a blog and wiki and a few other things and ran into trouble with upgrades and rogue spyware and such. While working remotely, Personal Antivirus installed itself onto my laptop with annoying pop ups and found 241 FAKE threats, worms, trojans!!! I thought my computer was infected! I fell for it! Then I discovered other bloggers who helped me get rid of PAV. To be safe, I have already canceled two credit cards!!!

Live and learn.

1 comment:

  1. Am having problems with blogger's new template design changing my post titles and links to blue and purple after a new post that I pasted from a Word doc...grrr. Apparently Word has some features that override my settings and changed my colors from orange which I can see to blue and purple which is really hard to read. I am not a programmer and it's not intuitive to go fix this problem. Other people have had the same issues when posting by pasting from a Word.doc. What to do?

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