{Genemics' Nation}

Saturday, October 30, 2004

Today is terrible! In the morning, right after crawling out of bed, immediately I turned on my laptop. And after exploring it for a moment or so, to my astonishment, I realised my laptop was working very very very slowly, and there were lots of pop-ups and I can't even get into my Hotmail and Yahoo!! All these were caused by SPYWARES!!! I was so furious and sad at the same time. Furious because I was thinking, who the hell installed those Spywares into my comp, sad because what if I couldn't remove them?? Then, these spies will be eating up my programs and hinder my usual Net activities. Can you imagine that you can't even check your emails, can't even go to search engines, then what's the reason for me keeping this laptop?? It took me the whole day to deal with it!
Ok, what is SPYWARE. Basically, Spyware is a term used for any software that is installed without the user's knowledge that secretly gathers information about the user and transmits it thru' his/her Internet connection to advertisers. They are similar to cookies and Web bugs. Once a spyware program is installed in your PC, it typically does not show up on any list of installed programs, making it difficult for users both to realise that it has been installed and to uninstall it.
I have been searching for the cause of the spywares and at that moment, I was really frustrated and needed help. My CIP(Computers & Technology in a Changing Society) textbook came to my mind. Luckily I studied this module. And I found it, then read it. The book introduced some anti-spyware programs and I thus installed this program called Ad-Aware SE. It really helped! Before that, I blocked all the cookies, not those cookies that we usually eat, but it is some small text files that are stored on your hard drive by a Web server. The anti-spyware program really helped, I ran several scans and quarantined 2500++ files!!! Can you imagine that??? I was like shocked. So many files were infected? Gosh! But luckily it's all over now! I even deleted my Kazaa for the sake of my laptop, AHHHH....my precious songs are now gone!! But I knew I had to do it. So... there. Now I just have to be extra careful when exploring the Net, because you'll never know what all those hackers or spies are doing to your computers! So you guys must run scans regularly! And block cookies! Scary...

freed his mind P.Y.R.A - U.G.I.N.E at 10:19 PM [comment]

Life is beautiful, so are you.

Comments:

okayz...this is eugene???...haha...~i'm so impresed with this boy...throughout this long entry...a good opening...yet...he can crap with those CIP stuff...~good one to lengthen ur entry...~

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vonkoh : 11:08 PM

yesh, this is the same crazy liza you know, the charmed freako, you can say ;-) eheh. and woah! you got urself a blog! hurray, i already link ya up in my blog (psst.. new layout, go check it out! =D)

now now, be careful with waht you download right? who know what kind of virus is attached to it. treat your laptop with all the love you can give, if spoil, die ah! kidding, okok, see ya around eh? remember to smile everyday, haha, good for you :p

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she went on and on and on and on : 8:40 PM