Syngin
08-07-2004, 10:05 AM
I'm usually careful about which freeware programs I install on my main windows box but something snuck past me when I installed a codec pack. Now, anything I type in IE's address bar gets jacked and routed through dnscaching.net and then is posted to the MSN search engine as a search variable. Talk about screwed up. Even then, I click on a link there and THAT shortcut gets posted back as a search variable.
Mozilla here I come. This is just too much of a pain. I've got Ad-Aware scanning and its already found 132 rogue objects. These days, half of the spy/ad ware acts like a trojan once installed and goes and installs a bunch of OTHER programs along with it. I can't count the number of times I've come across a commandline install argument in the startup area of my or other people's computers. Yes, yes, I realize that its probably mentioned in the license but seriously, if people had to stop and read every license agreement on every bit of software they installed, it'd probably cost the global economy a billion/day in lost productivity.
Why are these people not being prosecuted? Being a computer professional you'd think that these would be hard to sneak past me but they still occasionally get in. Makes you feel bad for the average user.
It actually really reminds me of Monty Python sketch called Wizzo Chocolate Company found here. (http://www.fortunecity.com/bennyhills/jones/724/sounds/wizzoskit.wav) Praline: Lark's vomit?
Milton: Correct.
Praline: Well it don't say nothing about that here!
Milton: Oh yes it does, on the bottom of the box, after monosodium glutamate.
Praline: (looking) Well I hardly think this is good enough. I think it would be more appropriate if the box bore a LARGE red label: WARNING: LARK'S VOMIT!!.
Mozilla here I come. This is just too much of a pain. I've got Ad-Aware scanning and its already found 132 rogue objects. These days, half of the spy/ad ware acts like a trojan once installed and goes and installs a bunch of OTHER programs along with it. I can't count the number of times I've come across a commandline install argument in the startup area of my or other people's computers. Yes, yes, I realize that its probably mentioned in the license but seriously, if people had to stop and read every license agreement on every bit of software they installed, it'd probably cost the global economy a billion/day in lost productivity.
Why are these people not being prosecuted? Being a computer professional you'd think that these would be hard to sneak past me but they still occasionally get in. Makes you feel bad for the average user.
It actually really reminds me of Monty Python sketch called Wizzo Chocolate Company found here. (http://www.fortunecity.com/bennyhills/jones/724/sounds/wizzoskit.wav) Praline: Lark's vomit?
Milton: Correct.
Praline: Well it don't say nothing about that here!
Milton: Oh yes it does, on the bottom of the box, after monosodium glutamate.
Praline: (looking) Well I hardly think this is good enough. I think it would be more appropriate if the box bore a LARGE red label: WARNING: LARK'S VOMIT!!.