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I’m aware that spyware programs may try to hijack the browser’s default start-up page, but AdAware telling me every time that I’ve possibly been infected because my start-up page is about:blank <\/em>(i.e., a blank window) is … irksome, given that that’s one of the options the browser itself gives you. <\/p>\n

(Mutter mutter mutter …)<\/p>\n

UPDATE: The new AdAware SE<\/a> evidently lets you set up an ignore list. We’ll see id that does the trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m aware that spyware programs may try to hijack the browser’s default start-up page, but AdAware telling me every time that I’ve possibly been infected because my start-up page is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-computer","category-spam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7485,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/23\/spy_vs_spy.html","url_meta":{"origin":6632,"position":0},"title":"Spy vs. Spy","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Feb-05 7:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know if it's because all the hackers and spyware types are busy either focusing on Micro$oft's new offerings, or else building Ominous Rootkits of DOOM, but I just...","rel":"","context":"In "Spam"","block_context":{"text":"Spam","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/computer-security\/spam"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6806,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/28\/tech_support_6.html","url_meta":{"origin":6632,"position":1},"title":"Tech support","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Dec-04 3:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This year has been remarkably free from the usual tech support calls on my parents' and in-laws' computers. 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