Go Back   spy hunter by Jasmine Low Works in progress from 'My Desktop Series'.   It took 23 days before I finally figured it was a form of malware or snoopware slowing down my Toshiba It was infuriating As each day the notebook would stealthily slow down its pace And would suddenly place a New Folder in the corner of my thumbdrive Each time I deleted the 261kb file, it would go away for 5 seconds only to revive seconds later There’s a certain skill to conducting a search on the net You’ve just got to know what to type in Why didn’t I think of this before?! I pound in the words Remove NewFolder.exe and waited for Google to do its jive Two million pages found Three downloads later I find a programme called spy hunter So I download her Install her Run her And let her do her miraculous search for spybots and other uninvited residents She detects over 64 of them And asks me if I’d like to remove them Yes please, I say Cunning like the Black Widow about to mate She asks me to spit out my credit card number and demands for US$39.99 I could have her for a year Why didn’t the portal pimp tell me that earlier? It was now 4am and I’m fuming Why do they always do that? All 3 of them! Scorned, I lay my head for a moment’s rest I want it all and I want it for free Free from virii, pop-ups, adware Free internet, free hosting, free content I seriously don't mind being an eye-ball prostitute for ads   - Ends -   Unreleased and unpublished version (c) J Low. Plagiarising will give u callouses and bad breath. Copyright 2004-07. Send comments and feedback to girl_gungho@yahoo.com