20 Sep
2004
20 Sep
'04
1:19 p.m.
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Tom Jennings wrote:
Um, yeah. It sucks. But only if you are lame and click on every shiny
banner ad that promises to fulfill your every whim and desire and you
always click "Yes" when some random plug-in wants to be installed.
You can't
rely just on those two tools. To properly clean a system, I
start with AdAware, then run Spybot S&D, then run CWShredder, then run
HijackThis! to do any final clean-up (HijackThis! is a manual process and
you must know what you're doing). The first three programs only get
most/some of the problems but not all, so it's important to run all of
them, IMO.
?! (asks rhetorically I guess) it's really necessary to do all this crap
and rigamarole (never mind the recently documented high crash/reboot
rate) just to operate a machine to read your email and store data!? I assume this is Windows, when people dont'
mention the OS it usually
means that...
Yes, as far as I know there are no equivalents of this nonsense in Linux
and MacOS.
I try to be OS agnostic (though I run open-source
OS's whenever I can)
but sheesh, you have to stop and ask yourself, is the above really worth
it?
Again, only if you're lame. If you are disciplined then you should never
really have to go through the process. I've fixed a few computers so far
for people and one major part of the fix is to educate the owners about
navigating the Internet in a safe and sane manner.
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