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McAfee lists Adware in Top 10 Viruses
joelethan writes "In the new sensitive, caring world of Windows security McAfee Virusscan detects adware/malware, just like its competitors. A surprising consequence is that the McAfee's Regional Virus Info now regularly shows adware in its infection top ten. It feels so good to see old favorites like 180Search and DFC listed. "Now for your listening pleasure it's Adware.Gator at number 7 with a bullet..."
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ADWare is actually a secret conspiracy from the guys who make tums to capture a whole new generation of geeks..
Geek: "Helpdesk, how can I help you?"
Hapless Worker Drone: "I have all these funny ads that keep popping up!"
Geek: "Did you install that nifty new weather bug, or that 'Gator' thing?"
Hapless Worker Drone: "I didn't install anything! This is your fault! You guys are supposed to protect us!"
Geek: "See that socket over there? It's the automatic anti human virus protecter, stick your finger in and call me in an hour"
"It's not stealing if you don't get caught!"
Uh-oh! They'll get sued by Claria!
In Soviet russia, only old Koreans profit from pictures of Natalie Portman stored on Beowulf Clusters.
Shhh! If you have everyone doing that, half of us will be out of jobs!
don't forget to forbid spyware by law too!
might as well also include spam while you're at it...
ohw, and hardware vendors should not be allowed to release a new product without working linux drivers! Punishable by making theirs specs 'open'...
Man, if i could only rule the world! It would be a much better place... or would I be easily corrupted? ];)
Unless, of course, you do it properly. But complaining is so much easier, eh?
My, I'm really turning into one of those bitter old posters who just goes around smacking down teenagers
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
I can still do that with women, though, right?
This is Slashdot. Half of us are already out of jobs . . . . . .
Only in a Slashdot fantasy can a Slackware install turn into several hours of sex . . . . .
I really, really, want to open "pamanderson.exe" and "AllWindowsCrackz.exe"
I guess you could probably come up with a list of 10, but it's usually not worth making a top 10 list when you're down to one infection by #4.
Look at the bright side-- now Gator doesn't have to do marketing or polling research to see how installed/popular their product is!
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
viruii
?!?!?!?!?! As if it isn't bad enough that multiple losers insist on using the non-word "virii" now we have losers who mis-spell the non-word "virii", too!
The abusive, obtuse, and broad EULA's that people click on without reading make it extremely difficult to deal with these companies. Here is one great way we should consider.
1)Make a copy of their agreement, and replace "The cool thing we say we do" with "Free pizza for the office"
2)Replace "We get to infest your machine with junk" with "We get to tar and feather you and put pictures on the internet"
3)Get together a bunch of cheese pizzas and head to their office. Get them to sign the modified agreement for delivery.
4) Proceed to tar and feather the person that signed for the pizza, and share the fantastic photos on the internet.
Remember, it's not assault, it's marketing they agreed to in the license. The beauty of it is that if they fight it, they fight their own agreement, and we can use anything they do to get them to be responsible for the *hundreds of millions of dollars* of damage they have caused to innocent people's computers.
-Z
... to the eyes at least!
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