‘Parasite’ is a shorthand term for “unsolicited commercial software” — that is, an Adwarez  program that gets installed on your computer which you never asked for, and which does something you probably don’t want it to, for someone else’s profit. Adware/Spyware or Malware is a huge problem not covered by anti-virus programs. The parasite problem has grown enormously recently, and many millions of computers are affected. I like the terms parasiteware or Scumware over Adware any day.  Be sure to read this complete section and take the steps to download my recommended detection and removal software. Recommended ... LavaSoft Ad-Aware6.0 or download Spybot S&D at  http://ejrs.com/spybot/ with these nasties out there in mass ...get and use all three Get-in2 recomendations.

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