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Questions from Bill

Will antivirus and firewall protect me from my computer from spywear?

Reply from Devilin

A decent firewall will protect you from spywear, as it can deny the spywear access to the intent thereby nullifying it, but antivirus software will not perceive spywear as a threat, because you've invited the spywear onto your computer, the latest vision of intent explore 6, can automatically stop spying cookies, when you set your own privacy levels in its control panel, any other type of spywear, is usually downloaded hidden in a program, with its own privacy policy agreement, and hidden away in this agreement, usually 100 lines down in technical mumbo jumbo, you find you've signed all of your rights to privacy away, therefore legally you've asked for it, and it can not be considered a virus, although it may be very similar in its design and


Questions from kasper42

Are you going to spy also on me ??

Reply from Devilin

No, would be the obvious answer, but you shouldn't automatically trust anybody, but I'm sure you've already noticed, by filling in the anonymous form, that I don't want your email address, or your real name, I don't want you to fill in any surveys, infact I've gone to some trouble, to keep things as anonymous, as I possibly, where I have control, so again the answer is no I'm not spying on anybody, I consider it unethical behavior


Questions from Magica de spell

I have the suspicion that the program called PalTalk is spyware. I dont know much about computers, but since i downloaded it i have all the problems. I tried 3 times to uninstall it. Each time the uninstall is successful but when I restart the pc the PalTalk icon still appears and i am allowed to uninstall it again...and again. Although the program itself wont run. Any ideas?

Reply from Devilin

http://www.paltalk.com/PalTalkSite/privacy.html

Ok the program itself isn't spyware, although some might argue, that the cookie side of the program might be considered spyware, but cookies can't really spy that much, its more of an addware program, especially via your email account,

And the program itself seems open to being hacked, or malicious abuse

As for the endless uninstall, it might be argued, that an annoying error in the uninstall program, might convince you to reinstall the program, just you so stop getting the annoying message every time you re boot your computer, some unscrupulous software titles employ such tactics, to keep their software use statistics artificially high

Here's how to stop the endless uninstall message, download WJ? startup manager, look for a file called. " PalNetaware / C:\Paltalk\puninstall.exe " and disable it from starting up, you should always disable, and never delete items in the startup menu, always using caution while using such programs


Questions from Roger Applegate

How do I stop diallers I have Norton Virus but it can only recognise them after they have transferred to my computer and have installed themseves so that I cannot use my internet connection

Reply from Devilin

Spybot search and destroy, should sort your any diallers out, use it carefully low, Javacool security, helps prevent dialler's from getting downloaded in the first place, Norton anti-Virus failed my tests and is not recommended on this site


 

 
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