beware

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

so I decided to install Spybot Search & Destroy (anti-spyware) on my
son's computer. Googling gave a list of sites, including something
called "Spyware Bot." By mistake, I clicked on it. Seeing a nice
website with promises of a free anti-spyware program, I said "what the
heck, it's not what I wanted exactly, but let's try it..." So I
downloaded, installed, ran it. Wow there's a lot of spyware -- but in
order to get rid of it, you have to register it. This, like with a lot
of other "freeware," involved money. So I uninstalled it.

No problem, but when I finally got Spybot S & D running, it found that
its imitator had left spyware behind -- which it couldn't get rid of
until the next reboot!

whoever invented marketing should rot in hell.

--
Jim Devine /  "if there's an original thought out there, I could use
it right now." -- Bob Dylan & Sam Shepherd.