Simslice Parasite Check Page

Parasite Check Page

This check started the moment you opened this page in your browser. If you are using the Internet Explorer (IE) browser and you have a known parasite on your PC, it will be described right between the "BEGIN CHECK " and "END CHECK" phrases. If there is nothing printed between these two phrases, then congratulations you are probably parasite-free. :)

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What are parasites?

First, there are no parasites on Simslice, so you can feel safe browsing our site. We also accept no responsibility for anything resulting from using this page or any other information/program linked here.

The information below is summarized from http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ , please visit this helpful website for additional information if needed.

‘Parasite’ is a shorthand term for “unsolicited commercial software” — that is, a 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. IE users are most vulnerable to parasites; as such the check above will only work for IE users.

The parasite problem has grown enormously recently, and many millions of computers are affected. Unsolicited commercial software can typically:

plague you with unwanted advertising (‘adware’); They can detect when your Internet browser is opened, and automatically launch popup ads... even if you're not connected to the Internet!
watch everything you do on-line and send information back to marketing companies (‘spyware’);
add advertising links to web pages, for which the author does not get paid, and redirect the payments from affiliate-fee schemes to the makers of the software (such software is sometimes called ‘scumware’);
set browser home page and search settings to point to the makers’ sites (generally loaded with advertising), and prevent you changing it back (‘homepage hijackers’);
make your modem (analogue or ISDN) call premium-rate phone numbers (‘dialers’);
leave security holes allowing the makers of the software — or, in particularly bad cases, anyone at all — to download and run software on your machine;
degrade system performance and cause errors thanks to being badly-written;
provide no uninstall feature, and put its code in unexpected and hidden place to make it difficult to remove.

There are three major ways unsolicited commercial software can make its way on to your machine:

Technically, most unsolicited commercial software isn’t viral: it doesn’t spread from computer to computer, it just installs and runs on one system. For this reason there are now a number of anti-parasite packages around that work as a complement to anti-virus software.

Visit and.doxdesk.com for links to anti-parasite software and additional information about this menace.

Visit Lavasoft for a free download of Ad-Aware, a great tool for removing most forms of spyware!

Microsoft Updates - Usually has patches for IE users, which may close "holes" that spyware can exploit.