There’S No Covering Your Tracks With Winlocator
Although your mom or girlfriend may not like it, visiting sites with adult-related material isn't inherently a bad thing. However, morality aside, such visits do become a bad thing when you pick up adware bugs like WinLocator while you're there. Not only do such programs put you in the potentially embarrassing situation of having to explain why you're suddenly getting pornographic pop ups, but you may have inadvertently put your personal information at risk of exploitation too.
WinLocator is an adware program that installs itself as a pornographic search toolbar on Internet Explorer. It then proceeds to track your browsing information so that it can bombard you with pop ups, and porn isn't the only thing that pops up. It will show pop ups for competitors to any product you may be researching as well as pop ups for any product or service that has bought advertising space with WinLocator's creators.
Interestingly enough, if you take the time to read the vendor's Terms and Conditions, you will see that someone who gets infected by WinLocator due to a drive-by download is actually agreeing to receive these pop ups. Who in their right mind would agree to let someone track their browsing activity and degrade the performance and stability of their computer? People who don't bother to read the fine print?
Furthermore, adware like WinLocator is capable of collecting potentially sensitive personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers, as well. Now granted, in the aforementioned Terms and Conditions, the vendor claims that they won't do this. But do you really think you can trust a program that was acquired on a pornographic site without your consent? I'd say their Terms and Conditions promise doesn't mean much given that they don't even have a privacy policy!
Any way about it, you need to get WinLocator off of your computer, fast. Spyzooka is the best program to use for this task. They guarantee 100% removal of all malicious software, including the unfortunate results of your embarrassing forays. If you are concerned about WinLocator or any other dangerous program on your computer, get a free scan from http://www.spyzooka.com today.
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