Must Love Macintosh - Transcript

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It is 7 minutes past the hour. Thanks for tuning into the show I appreciate it very much. Our toll free telephone number as Donna said is 180039 online 18003966546. I will get to the calls in just a second, we get an open line so you can call in. But here*s a great indication of just how confusing all of these Spyware and Shareware and Adware and Malware and all the different wares software is to people. We got an E-mail here from N. Collins who says please send me that thing that will get rid of my Spyware. I am new to this and I don*t know how I got it accept a friend clicked Norton Antivirus on here and I have had it ever since. Now questions that I have include are you using a copy of Norton Antivirus that your friend has also installed on his or her machine in which case that*s a violation of a license agreement. When you say a friend put Norton Antivirus on here and I have had it ever since. You could be meaning Norton Antivirus but I think what you are meaning is you have had the Spyware ever since which leaves me to thing that perhaps you think that by putting Norton Antivirus software on your machine it actually caused the Spyware. And I am pretty sure that*s not the case that would be pretty big news in the Antivirus, Anti-Spyware community. If an Antivirus software actually caused Spyware or contained Adware or Spyware. I have a feeling it*s more likely the way you use your computer the kinds of software you use the kind of websites that you visit. The E-mail that you may end up opening up out of curiosity that causes the Adware to be put on you machines probably not in Norton. And on top of that it*s a good point that Michael makes. Norton Antivirus software has absolutely nothing to do with removing pop-up ads and Adware and Spyware from your machine. Norton Antivirus software in particular goes after viruses. Now some times Adware is delivered via a virus and so the lines are kind of blending. But it doesn*t remove Adware that what Ad-Aware, Spybot Search and Destroy and Microsoft Antivirus software are for. Those are not Antivirus softwares, I am sorry Microsoft Anti-Spyware I think I said that. Those are not Antivirus software there are this Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware two different categories. So here*s for end I am just trying to you know meander her way through life use her computer with some gleeful abandon and instead she is being just bombarded with this junk. And is under the impression that because she has Antivirus software on there it*s what*s causing the issue. And that*s sad, and there are a lot of people out there like that. I did X, Y happened X must have caused Y. That*s not the case just because you put Antivirus software on here and later started getting Spyware it doesn*t mean that the Antivirus software caused her to get Spyware. So it*s really important for you to understand that. The gentleman we spoke with towards the end of the last hour, who was just so angry about all the Adware on his machine. It*s typical reaction, it*s a typical reaction and I hope that those of you who want to get rid of pop-up ads will avail

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