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To: Lane3 who wrote (92460)	12/27/2004 2:45:57 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793838

Over Christmas, my family re-rented the third Lord of the Rings. Waaay too many orks for me. I've been playing around with iTunes and a trial subscription to Real Rhapsody. Made the mistake of downloading Kazaa, because I foolishly took them at their word that they don't use spyware. Spent half of yesterday trying to remove said spyware. I regularly scan using a spyware program that comes free from AOL, and is updated weekly. Turns out that it missed 78 (!!!) spyware programs according to Spyware Doctor, which will scan for free but you need to pay to get it to remove. I ran Spybot Search and Destroy, freeware, which got a little more than half. Finally paid for Spyware Doctor, which removed all but one. Ad-Aware, also freeware, got the last one. I hope. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to configure Spyware Doctor to block spyware while surfing with Firefox. It makes a really cool noise when it blocks spyware while surfing with IE.