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When I used to have a site on adware/spyware/malware, I got a lot of emails from parents who let their kids on the family computer and sure enough computers were full of crap. Parents seemed to always be the ones to notice something was very wrong with the system, but most of the time kids were the ones who got this shit in the computer in the first place. Yes kids got a lot of popups too, including porn.
Computers were infected with MANY adware programs as most of them come bundled. One woman who had emailed me about removing zango (it kept coming back after uninstalling it) a few years back had gotten it when she downloaded a free kids game for her DAYCARE use.
A lot of this stuff is aimed at kids... simple reason for this, they don't read anything!! They just want to get the free game or whatever it is they want, so they click "yes", "ok", "I agree" but they have no clue what they're getting. My niece is 11 years old and every time she touches the computer, it ends up with some crap in it. All she does is play games and chat with friends. Good thing she has her own and no valuable info in it.
Missie
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