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Adobe Acrobat Toolbar Worse than Malware?
Phr3n3tik writes "Adobe Acrobat has long included a toolbar plugin to automate PDF Making from Office Products. Those who found the toolbar an eyesore, or just used it infrequently could always hide it from view. Not so in their new versions, (6, and 7 apparently.) Their new take on the PDFMaker toolbar is getting some users riled up, since it is harder to Move/Hide/Delete/Uninstall this new toolbar than many forms of malware!"
.... is Norton Internet Security.
That is THE worst malware to date.
- It preys on people's ignorant paranoia
- It succeeds in taking money from people (most malware fails at this)
- It blocks websites, services, and causes the computer to slow WAY down
- It is poorly written and buggy as hell. (how many times have you seen "please reinstall NIS"?
- When you turn it off it says it's off but stays on, when you disable it says it's disabled but it's still enabled, and worst yet it requires registry hacking to remove it without b0rking your networking capabilities.
- Customers calling Symantec with any support issues are directed towards their ISP for help.
fux0r Symantec.
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I think that the sig's supposed to be funny. It's credited to Dr. Spock, who is actually the famous pediatrician and author, and the stardate format doesn't appear to be correct (though I could be wrong about that). I'm afraid the joke's probably on you.
I'm afraid the joke's probably on you.
;)
I'm not a StarWars geek, so i'll have to consult my gf for a second opinion....
But if i just made an ayse out of myself, i can't say it's the first time
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You pay more at the outset when you buy the machine, but you save quite a bit of money and time when you don't have to deal with Windows' dime-a-dozen swiss-cheese security holes and the incessant viruses/worms/other malware you have to deal with. You also have to buy a lot more software as Apple provides a lot of stuff for free, pre-installed (and gives you real OS install disks in addition to system restore disks, not restore-only like a lot of system makers do lately) and you can buy a productivity suite (iWork) for a lot less than the insane amount of money MS wants for Office. (Sadly, no Aqua-native version of OpenOffice exists yet, though you can get decently-priced/free word processor/text editor apps if you look around a bit).
It is not as inexpensive as a Linux box, but then, you still can't run Photoshop (and there are those of us like me who actually need Photoshop, not the GIMP; fortunately, we university research types are eligible for educational prices, so the cost is reasonable) on Linux.
Macs really are the best choice for a lot of people, but a lot of those same people are too stupid to think of the long-term cost of ownership and only look at up-front numbers, which can be incredibly misleading.
I love my Macs. I support not just the lab I work in (every machine is a Mac except where we got stuck with Windows-only apps, like the controller for the Bio-Rad confocal microscope) but also support the department at large, and encourage people to get Macs. I spend far less time helping those who do have them than I do cleaning malware and spyware off Windows machines.
i am a soviet space shuttle