Thanks Blueduck, fantastic website!

Their program "The Ultimate Troubleshooter" seems indispensable, but it is their free library of Task List programs that I'll make a habit of using till I get that program because I usually find more programs running the longer my computer is on (it just keeps loading files by itself). Right now, I have only 7 tasks running because I have not had my computer on for long, other times when my computer has been on for hours, I press CTRL-ALT-DEL and find a list of 15 or so running. The ones that are running now are relatively harmless. The problem is that many companies don't consider (or care) their task files as harmful as long as it does what they want it to (kind of like the government, "I'm from the gov't. and I'm here to help") and so, neither do the anti-virus companies care or recognize them as harmful (whether or not they're harmful seems to depend on each person's point of view). The site also has many free downloads and when reading the descriptions of some of the downloads, it said that Spybot S+D and ADAWARE shouldn't be used on the same computer (that's news). Thanks again, these task programs and files seem to be the ace in the hole that anti-virus program can't or won't do anything about.
************************************This is an excerpt from the site and shows that another person can get software to spy on your e-mail address or URL address.

Smt SMT.exe

(BC Computing) Legitimate spy software, Win-Spy. By "legitimate" we mean software that you buy and willingly install (as opposed to software which is installed without you knowing, while you install some other software).

Recommendation :
If this program is on your PC, and you did not know about it, then you had better investigate what it is doing on your PC, as someone may be spying on you (and this means recording passwords, credit card numbers, in addition to everything you do on your PC) ! You can get rid of Win-Spy with "Spybot – Search & Destroy" available from our Downloads page.



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