I do spyware removal as part of my business, and there's only one area where I'm mostly in the dark. That area is safe surfing. I get computers that are mildly infected or not infected at all, but the surfed sites are tons of porn. I get others with no apparent porn surfed, that are so infected that it takes me a whole day to clean them up. What are the differences? I know the users of the highly-infected computers haven't cleaned their cache. I suspect that the things teenagers and gullible adults do are much more dangerous than porn surfing. What do these people do?
-Click here for a free vacation
-Gambling sites
-Bearshare, etc..
-"Your computer has 61 major spyware instances, click here to remove them."
Why can some people surf porn %26 not get a virus, but others (especially with teenagers) get lots of malware?computer security
Gambling sites have ridiculous amounts of spyware. One of my customers was, shall we say, a "big fan" of online gambling, but started having problems with his computer. It took about 3 hours of installing a variety of antispyware programs (I think I tried between 6 and 8) to get everything out of that PC (when I ran two reliable scanners consecutively and couldn't find anything else, I took that as a sign that I had that machine clean) and I warned him about the consequences of continuing. Another major source of spyware and viruses - program cracks, including game cracks. If you want reliable samples of viruses or spyware, go onto a file sharing network and search for cracks. You will find plenty of items for a virus testing lab.
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