It amazes me how often I've had to help clean that junk off relative's computers, and how hard it is to get some of them to understand how risky certain spyware can be. One time I was trying to remove a particularly stubborn item from an aunt's computer and had finally found instructions online to get rid of it, looked like it would take a fair bit of work, but no worse than a half hour, since I had finally found the culprit. She saw the work was I was about to go through and just told me to forget it; she didn't want me to go through so much trouble! I told her in that case she had better take it to a professional, because anything that stubborn was probably bad news. I still don't know if she did anything about it, but the computer was replaced a couple months ago.
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