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Originally Posted by teevee
I do not have any spyware detection applications or anti-viral software. As far as I know, I do not have any spyware, and it's been well over a year since I last reformatted.
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You'd be surprised. If you don't have spyware detection software, then you don't really know that your computer is spyware-free.
Anyone that has cookies enabled probably has spyware on their computer, as spyware can also come in the form of a cookie.
http://www.pestpatrol.com/Support/Ab...re_Cookies.asp
"A "Spyware cookie" is any cookie that is not used only by a single site for its private interactions with its users, but is shared across sites. When multiple sites read from the same cookie, or when they pass info from the cookie on to another site, those sites effectively share information. "
"A newly discovered flaw in the way that Internet Explorer handles Web site cookies could enable an attacker to view and edit a user's personal data contained in the cookies. The vulnerability affects all versions of IE. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware
"Nevertheless, to the extent that a Web site uses a cookie identifier to build a profile about the user, who does not know what information is added to this profile, the cookie mechanism could be considered a form of spyware."
Run Ad-Aware. I can almost guarantee it'll find 10's or 100's of spyware on your computer. Most spyware are harmless. But I bet you have them and didn't know it.