[AT] Do you have HotBar on your computer?

[charlie hill]

Or in the case of the Internet...Beware of GEEKS bearing gifts.  LOL

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Auten" <PGA2 at hot1.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Do you have HotBar on your computer?


> Arthur,
> This is good info. As with anything like this Hotbar program, beware of
> Greeks bearing gifts.
> I have fixed two barely operational systems for friends with AdAware and
> their own antivirus
> software. They simply had no idea how to use the antivirus program that
was
> already installed
> on their systems. One had only 47 spyware programs running and the other
> one had 61.
> Both had viruses which I cleaned first, but the spyware stuff used up so
> much of their system
> resources that there was little left to run what they wanted to use.
> Keep your guard up!
>
> Phil
>
> At 12:09 PM 05/23/2004, you wrote:
> >Hello gang,
> >
> >A few months back, maybe as long as 9 months or more, someone sent me
> >several email messages with a URL at the bottom advertising a free
utility
> >called HOTBAR. It was suppose to have wonderful things in it and smiley
> >faces and so on.
> >
> >(I know there are some computer Gurus out there who already know this,
but
> >there are a lot more users out there that don't!)
> >
> >Well, I finally downloaded HOTBAR. I wasn't totally unhappy with it so I
> >let it remain on my IE main page. Little did I realize it had spyware
> >imbedded in it. It uses Data Miner to glean information from your hard
> >drive and send it to entities that use the info for goodness knows what.
> >
> >There was an article in toady's newspaper that talked able how "SpyWare"
> >can and will slow down your computer operation. I had a spy ware
> >locator/killer downloaded, "ad-aware", but hadn't installed it. I
> >installed "ad-aware" free version this morning and it found 138 spyware
> >items and 130 + or - were HotBar using Data Miner. I set ad-aware to work
> >deleting the spyware items and my computer, which was running so slow I
> >was about to trash it, livened right up. I have since uninstalled HotBar.
> >
> >The point being, if your computer is running slower than it should, it
may
> >be choked up with spyware inquiries. If you're running HotBar, I'm sure
it
> >is and your are freely issuing personal data to the internet.
> >
> >Do with this information what you will. I'm just passing along an
> >experience of mine.
> >
> >Have a good one,
> >Arthur
>
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