Actually, you don't even need to do that. Everything you create is automatically copyrighted to you. At least in the US, probably in most (all?) European countries. Placing "Copyright BlaaBlaaBlaa" is mandatory.
If these applications are anything like Folding@Home , IBM's World Community Grid etc, there shouldn't be any problem. I haven't noticed any slowdowns since installing the latter, running Win XP.
If the application is placed on 'low' priority, you should be able to do whatever you normally do withouth the application disturbing you.
I have a machjine that is clearly hijacked by something called "istbar". I remove the thing with adaware every time I start the PC, and the next time, it is back again. I dont know what it does, but it uses all the bandwidth on my ADSL connection to do it.
I have posted before on/. saying WTF can I do to get rid of the beast, but up til now the only workable answer is "run Linux" - I normally do. I even run netBSD on my laptop. This is a machine I only use when I *HAVE* to run Windows. It is running Win2000 professional edition, with all its patches up to date.
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Heh, yes. That's what I meant. It was suppposed to read 'not mandatory'. Now where was that preview button...
Actually, you don't even need to do that. Everything you create is automatically copyrighted to you. At least in the US, probably in most (all?) European countries. Placing "Copyright BlaaBlaaBlaa" is mandatory.
Or at least that's how I remember it.
If these applications are anything like Folding@Home , IBM's World Community Grid etc, there shouldn't be any problem. I haven't noticed any slowdowns since installing the latter, running Win XP. If the application is placed on 'low' priority, you should be able to do whatever you normally do withouth the application disturbing you.