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Download Wrappers and Unwanted Software are Pure Evil

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday August 19 2014, @08:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing dept.

Teckla writes:

Call it Adware, Malware, Spyware, Crapware, it's simply unwanted. Every non-technical relative I've ever talked to has toolbars they apparently can't see, apps running in the background, browser home pages set to Russian Google clones, and they have no idea how it got that way.

Read on to learn how they get that way.

 
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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @01:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @01:40PM (#83062)

    The WWW has been around for, what, 14 years now? That's not counting the old AOL & Prodigy days, and AOL was (and still is) in itself crapware.

    More like ~20 years, actually. Not everyone used the WWW via AOL, especially outside the US.

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