bobquasit | My utter lameness revealed (again)

I am geeky enough to write to Dear Abby. I read it regularly, and her response to a writer today was so lame that I sent this:

You missed something, Abby. "PIQUED IN PALO ALTO" almost certainly has one or more infections in her computer, thanks to her porn-reading guest. Adult popups getting sent with her email is a dead giveaway. This is not surprising.

Just getting a new email address will NOT solve the problem. However, she may be able to avoid spending a large amount of money. PIQUED can use a series of free security programs to clean and protect her system.

It's a common error to spend large amounts of money to have a system professionally cleaned, only to end up with the same problem a few weeks or months later. All the resources anyone needs to protect their system are available for free online. I have no connection with any of these companies or products (except as a satisfied user), but if PIQUED installs the following:

Ad-Aware
Anti-Vir
Spybot - Search & Destroy
Spyware Blaster

...and updates them at least once a week (which is easy to do, it only takes a few minutes), she is unlikely to ever have a problem again. And they're all free.