Online games and malware
It happened once again. Only this time my son came to the rescue. My mother-in-law, who is great BTW, was having computer problems. She is not computer savvy so computer problems can mean almost anything. This time, it meant that there was a boatload of malware on her computer. Not viruses mind you, but tracking cookies, and all other sorts of nasties that track your habits. Using programs like ad-aware and ccleaner, we were able to get her back in shape.
The puzzler is we did this just a few weeks ago. Why all the dishonorable buglets? Turns out my neices and nephews like to go to the free flash game sites and at least one of these site was the culprit.
While no solution to block this malware, Firefox with ad-block goes a long way to keeping them at bay.
posted by Matthew O. Smith @ 2:43 PM
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