If you have ever had to clean up your computer to get rid of garbage programs such as browser toolbars and unknown “utilities”, it is important to know how these get on your system so it will not happen again.
For the most part, unless you specifically installed these programs, they probably get installed by sneaky installers. For a more in-depth look at how this happens, check out this post titled “How Does Spyware, Malware or Crapware Get on My Computer?“.
It only took 2.5 hours to reach [a high level of garbage]…simply surfing wherever for “whatever looked interesting or different”, downloading things like screensavers, file-sharing applications, and installing questionable software from advertisements.
As I have said before, the most effective protection is education. If you can treat the problem instead of continually treating the the symptoms, you will not have this problem ever again.
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