In your mind, they’re dressed in t-shirts and they talk to each in guttural tones and you have this vague feeling that they could be put in jail. The people distributing malware and viruses are anonymous criminals in Russia or Eastern Europe or someplace else a long way from here. They’re executives who wear suits to work and get paid a lot of money and face no consequences for what they’re doing. Any or all of those symptoms might mean you’ve picked up something unwanted, and of course that’s not an exhaustive list. Your browser home page is changed your search results come from an unfamiliar place instead of Google there are toolbars at the top of the browser that you don’t recognize links on web pages are underlined and ads pop up when your mouse goes over them you type in one website but you’re redirected to another one unfamiliar programs start appearing in the middle of the screen claiming something needs to be done to your computer – oh, and all too often your computer also starts to slow down and programs start crashing. How do you know if there’s adware on your computer? Computers are overly complicated and advertisers have learned that we can be easily manipulated into messing them up for their benefit. It’s all the fault of the stupid advertisers. Last month I blamed the computer manufacturers. There are many reasons that people are picking up tablets instead of computers in increasing numbers. It makes me so mad! Ooooh! It makes me say bad words. I feel like I’ve been spending half my time cleaning adware from perfectly nice computers in the last couple of months. This isn’t a new problem but it’s getting worse. We are being assaulted by adware – programs installed by stealth and deceit by advertisers who do not care if they are unwelcome.
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