Bloggers for Dollars

I've recently mentioned that I've had a few problems lately with spyware attacks, but the worst problem I ever had was in January of 2006. Funny that I would remember exactly when it happened but it coincided with some other things that happened that month so that's why I remember the date. Too bad I didn't have Spy Sweeper to prevent those problems.

Actually, the issue wasn't with my own computer. The spyware problem was with my husband's computer but since I'm the official computer admin of our family I was the one that had to fix it. :(

The problem my husband had was that he didn't realize some of the pop-ups he received and that asked him to "click to remove spyware" were actually putting the spyware and trojans on his computer in the first place. He downloaded the "spyware cleaners" that the pop-ups told him to which in turn made it worse. Then they started asking him to pay money to remove the trojan they put on his computer! It was awful.

And as if that wasn't bad enough, something happened to his .lnk files (we never figured that one out) and he could not load any program at all. I tried to fix his computer for over a week until we finally just gave up and re-installed his OS. What a pain!

Thank goodness for an award-winning product like Spy Sweeper. Spy Sweeper blocks known and emerging spyware threats as you browse before they ever reach your computer. If your PC is already infected Spy Sweeper will find and completely destroy malicious spyware that is already on your computer. Sounds good to me.