Yesterday I helped a co-worker remove a Trojan Horse from his Win98 machine. It seems that an MP3 encoder program that he had installed also brought along a friend or three that started adding advertisments to his web browser and his machine in general.

It was scary stuff. His machine needed to be cleaned up anyway, but there were a ton of things that he said was software he wasn't using, so we Uninstalled a bunch of packages. One of them was SaveNow, which sounds like a utility I would use to save the work I'm doing in Word or something. But it turns out that it's a Trojan horse and causes most of the unauthorized activity that was going on.

Sometimes it's nice to be in the minority where it's not as cost effective to build stuff like that.

ObWinComplaint: Does HomeSite really have to be *this* unstable?

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