Bug off

A while ago my computer would curse me with lame porn pop-ups. At first it was happening whenever I visited the BusBlog and I wrongfully suspected that his blog was to blame. But then the pop-ups started to appear after visiting other sites. When I actually took a closer look at one of the pop-ups and traced it's origin it turns out there was some crappy business called ClientMan playing dirty on my comp. Damn the man!

Before then my brother introduced me to the wonders of Ad-Aware. I remember the first time he did a scan. I had felt safe before then. I had VirusScan. I practiced safe surfing. Nothing should be amiss. And THEN the scan came back at me with, I think, 60 dataminer thingies it found on my computer. To further add insult to injury an animated little bug was wiggling its legs at me to let me know I was infected.

I felt sooooooo violated.

Anyway, back to ClientMan. Because of those blasted porn pop-ups I did the Ad-Aware thing every night to no avail. What was going on?

Enter doxdesk.com. Never mind how I came to find this wonderful site. doxdesk does an online scan of your computer like Ad-Aware does without installing the program, but somehow it finds little bugs that slip through Ad-Aware's vigilance. Booyah, ClientMan!

Mind you, doxdesk doesn't clean up your computer for you the way Ad-Aware does. In fact, it takes a bit of time to clean up your computer properly yourself following its instructions (it's different for every blasted bug). I believe it's worth it, though. Another one that was giving me grief was ShopAtHome Agent. It would have gone uncleansed if not for doxdesk.

So now I'm doubly-clean. It's a hassle to go through all that on a regular basis, but you have to stick it to those stupid spies. I love that show Big Brother, but I definitely don't want him watching over me.