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Spyware Becoming Worst Tech Support Problem
teknurd writes "Wired has an article about the growing problem of computer users having to call tech support to get help removing all of the spyware on their computers. 'The fast-growing phenomenon is already responsible for more than 12 percent of all technical support calls in Dell's consumer hardware division, the biggest category of complaints this year, company representatives said.' Personally, I have had to remove this plague from the computers of several friends and family members."
I thought that the real answer was not to buy a Dell which comes loaded with the crap?
apparently you're not an advanced user, but rather a fucking n00b. get a clue asshole.
I guess you'll have to deal with the cost of not thinking ahead then and we won't.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
For home users: Fuck what they like. Scan with Adware and Spyware. Install Firefox. Remove all easily accessable icons for Internet Explorer and Set the default to firefox. Install Flash for them and put on the User Agent Switcher plugin and set it to Internet Explorer so no secure site whine about it not being a "modern browser"
Tell them that some sites may look a little fucked up (msnbc.com etc.) and leave them be.
It is an absolute fuckup that microsoft will not be updating IE separately. Sure XP SP2 will include an upgrade, but they really need to release a new one just to prevent the trash - then they can drop support for the old shit becuase most waterhead motherfuckers use IE.
I do believe that the anti-viruses should do this shit. I can't believe that Symantec hasn't bought Lavasoft. What a dream it would be to do a right-click on the company do a virus-sweep from symantec system center console and ALL the SHIT will be gone. Its a problem of a name. What makes spyware and adware differerent from a virus? What qualifies it as something different? Its a goddamn virus. If it removes functionality, causes problems with the machine, slows it down, makes it unuseable, crashes it before the desktop comes up, makes it reboot, sends information about you out on the net without your permission, breaks in without at least a click to initiate the install. A FUCKING VIRUS. Say it V I R U S..... So treat it like a fucking virus and start including the shit in my goddamn definition files alright. This is fucking bullshit, these software delevopers are sucking satans' cock just as much as the motherfuckers that made Sassar, Blaster, Slammer, etc.
The least I can ask for is that viruses, spyware, and adware start affecting Macs and Linux. Yeah, fuck you too, not everywhere is the utopian goodness of Unix-based shit. Businesses run on Windows for the most part. I've got one fucking mac on my network and its can't browse windows network shares since the user re-set the time, apple support says re-install. I wiped the only linux box we had becuase linux seems to change the location and/or the applicable config file for things per distribution.
FUCK!!