bigbeartech
Goo?
join:2001-09-23
Saint Louis, MO
| As an internet support tech
I can vouch for that...
The biggest culprate is kazaa, but we know about others and go through and suggest to do a search on google for "remove spyware" or direct to the lavasoft site.
The issue is a big headache for ISPs, they have to tell people why they are getting pop-ups, spam, and tell them why their inet browsing is slowing down. They generally think it is the ISP causing all this, education is the key.
It costs money to fix this crap, yet its not illegal. |
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
Premium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| While regular Kazaa is perhaps the single most parasite
infested piece of software out there, there is another
(also P2P) that is just as bad. That is iMesh. People
download these two without realizing what unwanted
baggage comes with them (clicking through EULAs without
reading them first), and they wonder why their computers
seem to grind almost to a halt. Then they bother their
ISP's tech support.
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"Kayura or Badamon, whichever you are, you should know that I will never give up this battle. By the will of the Ancient, I shall succeed!" - Shuten (Anubis) from the Ronin Warriors. |
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