Entropic opened this issue on Apr 29, 2002 ยท 18 posts
whoopdat posted Mon, 29 April 2002 at 5:04 PM
"Doesn't virus protection scan for that kind of thing?" It would if they were a virus, but they're not. They're "legitimate" programs that track your habits on the computer and pop webpages up where you can buy stuff from, because hey, it's what you were about to do anyway, right? Ok, sorry for the sarcasm. :) Just use ad-aware if you think something is fishy. You may be surprised at what you find (even if nothing is fishy).