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World's Most Annoying IE Toolbar
nautical9 writes "Following the same devious footsteps of the infamous Bonzi Buddy, Gator, and Comet Cursor "enhancements", Xupiter now has their own self-installing toolbar for IE. There are many claims that if you leave your security preferences at their default level, it will install itself without your express permission. And once on your system, it's gracious enough to reset your homepage to xupiter.com, forward all your searches to their search engine, download and automatically launch applications (like gambling applets), and blocks all attempts to set these back to normal. Removing it isn't trivial either - it automatically checks for updates upon reboot, where it constantly changes the registry settings it uses, making the jobs of spyware removal programs like AdAware or Spybot Search & Destroy much harder. No word yet if it collects and forwards personal data."
to their credit, Xupiter's search engine returns the best quality squirrel porn I've ever seen.
Thanks a lot. I clicked on the link, and now I have this stupid toolbar installed!
idm owns me
ya.. now u have done it.. now every
ahh... so u dont need to read the actual article to comment... damn it #*#@
... hee2 is stuck under the bed.
Help, help! My Bonzi Buddy is eating my Gator, and my Comet Cursor is header for a direct impact with Xupiter!!!
Sig.i>
We need laws for everything!
Every time I wiggle my mouse around or push my spacebar I need a law to clearly define what I'm doing, what my rights and responsibilities are, and what the punishments are if I wiggle that mouse a little bit too far to the left!
Laws, laws, more laws! We dont have enough laws!
People are too stupid to live lives themselves or take any sort of personal responsibility! We need laws and lawyers and lawsuits!
More LAWS! Laws are the answer.
I'm writing my congressman right now, demanding more and increasingly complicated laws!
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I guess I still don't see what the big deal is. It's just like the email "virii" that require people to execute scripts. If you don't want the stupid toolbar, don't download and install it. If you do install it and then you change your mind, uninstall it. This is isn't rocket surgery, people.
I'm also pretty surprised to see this kind of sympathy for Windows newbs on this site. We're all well beyond computer literate, and we recognize that computers and software are just tools that do what we want. If the lusers can't take the time to learn how to use their computers properly, well, that's their own fault.
The toolbar must not fall into the hands of one who would use it to destroy us. It is folly, then, to take it to him, when we could use it ourselves for such greatness.
Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith
***//MESSAGE TERMINATED//INSERTING REPLACEMENT//***
XUPITER IS GREAT! EVERYONE NEEDS XUPITER! IT CAN TYPE FOR YOU! WHY DON'T YOU INSTALL XUPITER NOW?
Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter Xupiter
Rock!
But...but...I want my browser taken over too! We Mac users never any get any of the cool stuff Windows does...::snifff::
CDE open sourced! https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
There is also no word in yet if it will blast your brain with secret radio waves that will make you submit to secret commands from the government but it's a good idea to always wear your tin-foil hat anyways.
Sheesh...
All the best,
--Bob
Just this morning, I ran into the first site that I have seen that gets around Mozilla's popup blocking. It puts up a popup window whenever you click on any of the links. Mozilla allows this. Soon more sites will be doing this. I wish nobody else used Mozilla.
"rocket surgery"
Hah, now that's even funnier.
GL
(maybe with claims like that we can convince the goverment to go start witch hunts that will go after all the irritating things like that one)
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
Lets play a game, which of these words doesn't belong in this list:
Spyware
Popups
Adware
Mozilla
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
That's what you get for running IE.
REAL MEN parse the raw html in their heads and just imagine what the pictures are from the tags.
Wimp.
Fortunately, there aren't many people like you (Mozilla users)...there are far more hordes of stupid IE users. These suffer through popups and popunders and spyware so that money can be infused into the Internet to subsidize my fast, ad-free experience. Well, and yours.
Here's to IE!
I have never checked 'always trust' and have wished for a 'Never trust, key their car, and don't ask me again' checkbox for a long, long time.
Especially after the "Microsoft is no longer a 'Trusted' party fiasco of last year.
If you can't trust Bill, who can you trust?
Thanks for listening, Bonzi Buddy. You're my only friend.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's a bad analogy for software, innit?
Do not taunt Happy Fun BarTM
Surfing to http://www.xupiter.com/uninstall/
and this appeared on my browser
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Xupiter Toolbar Uninstallation process was started.
Please, close this window.
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Sound like those guys are pretty annoyed somehow.
Actually, now that I think about it, my Redhat desktop is kind of boring.....
The Tooth Fairy is known for leaving money in exchange for children's teeth... doesn't make her real.
"The Tooth Fairy is known for leaving money in exchange for children's teeth... doesn't make her real.
What?! She's not real? Dammit!
So much for my retirement teeth.
psmylie's dictionary: Godzillion (noun) Any number large enough to destroy Tokyo
They have every piece of annoying software installed on there 500Mhz computer. From Yahoo Toolbar, to some WeatherBug thing, to Gator, CometCursor...
As a Linux guy, and techie in general, it makes me sick whenever I wonder how much spyware is on that box. Of course they think these things are useful!
Before I installed W2K, the time it took for Windows 98 to boot was astronomical. P.O.S.O.S.
Patent: from Latin patere, to be open
The Tooth Fairy is known for leaving money in exchange...
Viruses are known for leaving megabytes of junk in Exchange.
Follow me
Damn it! Why can't Mandrake put things in the normal places? I've looked all over my hard drive and I can't find %WINDIR% anywhere... guess I should have went with RedHat.
How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
"isn't that the digital equivalent of mugging and rape?"
Well, if someone was walking around the Internet, flaunting their IE all over the place, with their security settings half way down to their waist, then weren't they asking for it?
Come on, you know they wanted Xupiter. They wanted it!
Yup, one more reason why DRM and Palladium will help stop nonsense like this. By giving Microsoft the authority on what can and cannot be installed on our systems, it makes it so much safer.
I'm not being sarcastic, but Microsoft was smart by introducing these technologies.
My favorite is how ads are "enhancements":
To further enhance your media viewing experience, Xupiter reserves the right to run advertisements and promotions
To further enhance your sensory experience, Xtupider reserves the right to beat you upside the head with a large multi-colored baseball bat.
Lawyers? You really think that's necessary? I'll bet a politely-worded email to that nice Mr. Jeff Phucksum would be all it took to end this whole misunderstanding.
Domain Name: AMATEURPORNHOUSE.COM
Administrative Contact:
Phucksum, Jeff
I bet he has a moustache on his driver's licence photo.
Vino, gyno, and techno -Bruce Sterling
My systems are set up as minimally as possible for efficiency and reliability. For the life of me, I can't figure out how people manage to screw up their computers as badly as they often do.
I have many friends who have enormous hard drives and have filled them to the brim with all kinds of programs and downloads. Their computers, which are some of the fastest around in terms of hardware resources, run more slowly than an old 286 would if it was running Windows XP through a Pentium IV emulator written in Microsoft GW-BASIC, where the emulator's "RAM" and its processor registers reside on a slow tape drive, with each register on opposite ends of the tape. Oh, and did I mention all the graphics, sounds, windows, and other garbage that shows up all the time as they're running their computer? Just so you understand, all they ever do is write emails and write text in a word processor. But their computers are filled to the brim with crap.
I think the xupiter toolbar would be an innovative addition to my friends' highly optimized configuration.
Sincerely,
The Negra Modelo Troll
P.S., I drink Guinness too. I know I've talked smack on its flavor in the past but you have to find a bartender who knows how to pour and serve it. I can't stand the stuff out of bottles.