spyware?

[Luigi01]

I just wondered about the following:

In Xp I run at least once a month several clean up programs, one of which always finds 10 or so spyware programs, which are then removed.

One of the reasons I love Linux is that register cleaning and disk de-fragmenting are things of the past; also the chance of getting your computer infected by some virus is as I understood far less than when running under Windows, mainly because you have to be 'root' in order to install anything.

But how is this for cookies, and more important, spyware?? Do I still have to remove those 'manually'??

[Rog131]

Re: spyware?

...Do I still have to remove those 'manually'??

Maybe Qqmike's Privacy Cleanup 101 helps:

Two reasons to clean things up
(1) To delete information for privacy/security, and (2) To delete data to free up disk space and/or make things run more efficiently This How-To deals with (1), cleaning up stuff for privacy reasons. That means deleting anything you do not want left on your machine, for whatever personal/business reasons you may have, or if you share your computer...