PC Parasites

Parasites are small software apps that attach themselves to other programs such as web browsers and windows explorer and cause all sorts of havok on your computer system. Most use your network connection to bombard you with advertising or spam, whilst others are very harmful to locally saved data. symtoms: Your browser keeps opening loads of popup windows, especially on sites that don't normally have this type of behaviour. You are experiencing delays when accessing sites which are normally fast. 404 / 500 Error messages occur more regularly than normal. You are missing files. You are getting a lot more spam or junk mail than normal. solutions: Check out at this site whether you have any simple to spot parasites. http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ Keep your anti-virus software up to date.