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riscniaga
07-04-2004, 01:55 AM
last week, one of my clients, had a strange problem with peachtree.

while they were typing in data in a text field, the screen will suddenly blink and the cursor will move on to the next text field.

after 30 minutes, found out that a spyware program (gator) was trying to 'capture' the data which caused peachtree to respond and move the cursor to the next textfield.

the moral of the story is to keep your pc updated always with windows update, anti-virus updates, firewall updates, anti-spam updates and anti-spyware updates.

i am also using mozilla as my main browser and email client. the tabbed browser and pop-up blocker is really great.