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1 posted on 06/25/2005 8:42:55 PM PDT by restornu
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To: restornu

Yahoo toolbar is constantly trying to sneak itself onto my computer. If you download other programs, you often have a box checked by default saying that you also want to install the Yahoo toolbar. It's a real pain, because it can easily get in under the radar screen.

I haven't seen Google do anything like that.


2 posted on 06/25/2005 8:53:13 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: restornu
...Eric Goldman, a cyber law professor at Marquette University.

Wonder if he got his degree online?

3 posted on 06/25/2005 8:59:05 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: restornu

For any company that gets its spyware/adware onto my computer, I won't do business with them for a stick of gum. And I'll send their corporate office a letter telling them so.


4 posted on 06/25/2005 8:59:18 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("A litany of complaints is not a plan." -- G.W. Bush, regarding Sen. Kerry's lack of vision)
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To: restornu
These brain dead marketers obviously subscribe to the adage that any attention is better than none so I suspect we'll see more and more of these off-putting marketing tactics.

I guess they must work, like telemarketers, but not on me or, for that matter, anyone I know. So the question remains - Who are the idiots these tactics are directed to?

5 posted on 06/25/2005 9:02:43 PM PDT by drt1
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To: restornu; All
 
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Keep your OS updated & patched.

Run a hardware firewall-- with today's LAN's, it's easy. You need a hardware firewall.


7 posted on 06/26/2005 1:38:41 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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