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Spyware Removal: Drop PC in Dumpster

Posted by timothy on from the baby-bathwater-makes-a-fine-soup dept.

morganx writes "The New York Times is reporting that some users prefer throwing out their PCs and buying new ones to actually removing their spyware. Does this mean lots of free hardware for the dumpster-divers among us?"

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  1. Dupe Removal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Drop timothy in the dumpster... along with Zonk, Taco, etc.

    1. Re:Dupe Removal by Rei · · Score: 5, Funny

      On the first Dupe of Monday, Timothy gave to me
      People trashing spywared PCs

      On the second Dupe of Monday, Timothy gave to me
      Old computer booklets
      And people trashing spywared PCs ...

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      Point of interest. Offering to shoot us might not work so well as an incentive as you might imagine.
    2. Re:Dupe Removal by someonewhois · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm waiting for the day that there's a slashdot article that only links to another slashdot article.

    3. Re:Dupe Removal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      12 first post's a milking
      11dupe stories dancing
      10 google articles singing
      9 M$bashing threads
      8 Karma whores
      7 hello.jpg's
      8. KDE vs. Gnome flamewars
      5 roland pipsquelle slashvertisments
      4 netcraft confirms BSD is dead posts
      3 build your self something you could buy for 1/3 the cost stories
      2. trolls a prancing
      a cmdr taco eating a burrito in a lemon tree

    4. Re:Dupe Removal by clem · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't worry, I have a feeling we'll be seeing it again.

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  2. Yeah. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm typing this from a dumpster right now. Thank you, spyware.

  3. ObQuirk! by overshoot · · Score: 4, Funny
    I wonder why it is cheaper to buy a new $400 PC than paying top rate of, say $100 per machine, to get someone to insert the recovery CD and get everything back to factory defaults.

    Objection, Your Honor! Assumes digital media not in evidence!

    Last I heard, MS was prohibiting OEMs from shipping recovery CDs. That hard drive is all you get.

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    Lacking <sarcasm> tags, /. substitutes moderation as "Troll."
  4. Re:Cheaper? by Agent__Smith · · Score: 5, Funny

    "After all, do you see people expecting to buy and use a car with zero training, no licence or maintenance? Why do they apply a different standard to computers?"

    Ever heard of a MAC?

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    "It seems that we are at the age where life stops giving us things, and starts taking them away..." Indiana Jones