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[TP]

Let your kids on your PC to do whatever they want and don't run your spyware software for a month!

I did a speed test on my PC this evening when my connection was running like a dog with no legs and 46 kb/s. For those of you who don't really know if that's good or bad I was expecting to see around 960 kb/s!!!!! 46 kb/s is the same as dial-up!!

So I updated my versions of Lavasoft Ad-Aware and Spybot, updated the definition files and ran some scans. It has cleaned off over 400 spyware/malware objects. I ran a netstat prior to doing this and there were SO many dodgy looking connections running out to the internet I wasn't surprised to see how slow it was.

My last speedtest was 958kb/s

Make sure you run your spyware tools once a week and keep them updated!

Top tips, from TP

[Edited on 6-4-2005 by TP]