Ever installed a new piece of software only to find lots of unwanted shortcuts on your desktop, unwanted favorites in your browser, a different browser homepage, or unwanted icons on your quick launch toolbar? (Or all of these?)
Not any more! Geek Superhero let's YOU decide whether you want new icons or favorites added to your computer.
Ever had a program add itself to start when Windows starts without asking? Or add and re-add itself to start when Windows every time you run it?
Not any more! Geek Superhero let's YOU decide whether you want something to run when Windows starts. Click the picture to see it in action
Hopefully you've never had a Virus or Trojan that changes all kinds of
settings on your computer to make your web searches go to somewhere else
or to spy on you or make your modem dial an expensive long-distance number or worse!
Geek Superhero can help! Geek Superhero watches for many different things that Viruses and Trojans and other
Scoundrels will change on your computer. There are dozens and dozens of
important settings that Geek Superhero watches for changes.
Popup windows are those advertising windows that appear when you visit some web sites--trying to sell you credit cards, little cameras, movie and TV previews, and more. Popup Slapdown is a popup window blocker for Internet Explorer that keeps all those ad windows from appearing. It works simply (and even invisibly) in your web browser. When a popup window is detected and blocked, a sound will be played, and the main Internet Explorer window will be flashed. (You can change how those work if you don't want it to flash, etc.)
Web Bugs are little tiny images websites include in their pages. They load a picture from another website, which allows the other website to set a cookie on your computer. Usually these pictures are tiny; either invisible or as big as the period at the end of this sentence. So you don't see them.
They are most commonly used to track you as you visit a website or for other advertising reasons. Geek Superhero's Bug Swatter can automatically remove these Web Bugs from webpages as you surf the Internet.
EXAMPLE: This page is loading an image from one of our other web sites. It is a 1-pixel transparent GIF. We are NOT setting a cookie to track you--BUT WE COULD! If you are running Geek Superhero right now, you should see the "Web Bug Killed" message at the bottom of this page.
You can't see it, but the image is here: ()
Refreshing the page will show the web bug images normally.
Geek Superhero is a program that's harder to see in action.
With a registry repair program (like
Registry First Aid) you can run it and immediately see it work.
Geek Superhero is more like a virus scanner--where it's hard to really see
it work until the virus scanner pops up and says "Hey! I Found a Virus!"
So we created a little
Scoundrel Simulator program. You can use this program to
safely see some of the changes commonly made by malicious programs (like changing your browser's home page and
making it hard to change it back.)
More Info Here!
Hopefully you've never had a Virus or Trojan that changes all kinds of
settings on your computer to make your web searches go to somewhere else
or to spy on you or make your modem dial an expensive long-distance number or worse!
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