Ok, so my coworkers told me so a long time ago… But yeah, there’s a lot of spyware out there, and apparently most of it is aimed at asshole fileleechers. I recently got jiggy with a number of p2p enhancement utilities that all seemed reasonable at the time, and the next thing I knew my IE6 was infested with popup ads and alternate autosearch behavior.
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