biggest threat

[mad awareness]

the most biggest threat to me in the past few years on the net havnt been viruses or hackers the biggest threat u may not or u may already know or u may think im crazy but the biggest threat is adware n spyware some say its sites u should watch out for but its about every site ebay for example yeah i have a popup blocker but ebay popups freeze n crash my browser ive trried alot of pop up blockers and adware firewalls ad u dont really need all these things slowin ur internetspeed ang takin up your ram this mostly means u have to deal with it n build a faster computer i really feel sorry for dial up users i havnyt had dial up in quite a while all these things just gettin into your pc with out u knowing ads that lycos side search i hate that if i wanted someones search crap on my computer i would get it but why do they just force it up on u well they dont make enough money so they set out to make u pay for every thing buy buy buy pay here pay here fee fee fee i feel those who use the popup banners adwar installers and spyware should be convited of internet crimes as if they wrote a virus or stole creditcard numbers n used them to travle around the world advertisemen yeah is a big busness and the software makers have this at the threshhold u need a program for just about every thing im glad lavasoft have made a free adware program and i insist they should be awarded for their work to collect all the information they have so far about adware their are alot of computer users that hear great things about the net and they are just getting online their first times and they have no clue what to do but read n they are far behind my knowledge soi..i wanna look out for the good peopel that are into learning i recomend everyone to read about adware and spyware before u surf the net to find any thing u are in the times of the biggest threat i mean u can stay free from viruses with out virus protection u just have to know what to stay away from but u cant stop the advertisement busness

[neuroking]

I think the biggest threat is the lack of proper punctuation on the net. :)

Seriously, add a few periods. Maybe even a comma or two.

[Ioman]

Kind of hard to read, but I understand your point. We go through HUGE lengths to make sure that no spyware shows up on Designtechnica but once in a while it sneaks in. These spyware companies pay millions in advertising and to a lot of agencies they simply cannot resist the urge. Some of the largest corporations out there are behind it. I have seen Sprint ads show up on my desktop using spyware I accidently installed. This of course makes me super mad. I think it will only get worse before it gets better.

Neuroking be nice! :D

[llbbl]

don't get adware confused with adaware =)

[ECA]

ya know whats WORSE.
I DL'ed Mozilla, and love it to death... It has ad-blokers, and some nice things, that IE should have, but DONT.
I wonder why??
Is it because MS wanted a backdoor into your system? Is it because they wanted controls to shut you down if MS wanted to? The Gov wanted a way to trace anyone using IE, did you know that?
Did MS want a way that they could let Advertisers make popups you COULDNT block, so they could sell it to Advertisers?? And every security update changes this format so they can RESELL the service???

I WONDER.......

Only prob with mozilla, is it dont integrate well with some products for viewing stuff on the net...like swf files... Even there email prog, has Spam protection, and its NICE as my ISP is haveing problems BLOCKING some of it...

So, Who to shoot first??
The company that MADE IE with all the HOLES in it.
Or the persons and companies that bought/hacked the rights to USE those holes??