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Updated Friday, Aug. 10
Stop the presses.

First, let me admit that I totally blew it.

The Evil Bastards at "Text Enhance" are sneaky evil bastards. Their web site misled me into thinking that their annoying pop-up ads were somehow not the result of something evil that had found its way clandestinely onto my computer. It was.

Removal has been difficult. If you have this problem, go to:

http://botcrawl.com/how-to-remove-text-enhance/

...and you'll find instructions for manual removal and system protection.

Also, please be advised that Malwarebytes (the current most popular free anti-malware), while it was initially able to deal with this problem, no longer works on it. At least on my system, it doesn't. I suspect that something on my system is reloading T.E. after Malwarebytes deletes it, but this is just speculation on my part.

In any case, I have just cleared my system and we'll see how long it lasts.

To recap:

The Evil Bastards at "Text Enhance" are truly evil evil bastards, in addition to being sneaky evil bastards.

Clear enough? Gonna sue me yet, you Evil Bastards?

The Blues Viking

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