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How to report spyware/adware and other forms of malicious software

In regard to the title, this post is very inconcise. If you want to quickly learn how to report malaware, scroll down to the last two paragraphs. I find it Ironic that just a week ago I posted ways to prevent spyware, and last night my PC got infected from downloading and installing simple screen [...]

Facts on spyware/malware

Yesterday I spent some time restoring my mom’s Dell Dimension 3000 PC. Internet explorer had 5 toolbars, It was getting random pop-ups and it was running extremely slow; all classic symptoms of spyware. The great thing about any Dell PC that was build sometime within the last 3 years, is its built-in recovery feature. That [...]