AnonProxy
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Re: What would you find?
Smells a lot like something other than teen spirit. |
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SanJoseNerd
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I recently scanned two new Dell computers with Ad-Aware and Spybot, and both were clean.
BUT -- One was a business computer, and one a home computer. The home computer was full of stuff that behaved like adware/spyware: There's obnoxious trial-ware that wants to collect your personal info. The DVD drivers occasionally pop up an ad offering to sell you updated drivers! The "try AOL" icon is so aggressive that it appears virtually everywhere in the system, even in the disk directory. All this stuff was easily removed, but it took time to track it down.
By contrast, the business computer really was clean. No trial-ware, no AOL icon, no ads of any kind.
The business computer cost a couple hundred dollars more than the home computer, for essentially identical hardware. So I guess the going price for the absence of spyware is 200 bucks. |
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brianiscool
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Miami, FL | reply to dg2
You think Earthlink has the cure for everything? It's just a marketing scheme just like their anti-spam program. I bet the people that pay them to spam all of Earthlink emails gets removed from their list. |
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Varangian
join:2002-12-08
Collinsville, IL
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If you didn't have dialers that's good. Maybe your model used a different image.
Maybe the other fellows computer spent a little time being used by Dell suits for entertainment.
THe point is that - if YOU SET UP YOUR OWN MACHINE - YOU WON'T HAVE PORN DIALERS.
unless you want some  |
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dg2
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said by AnonProxy  :
Well then millions of people must have it. They image those machines from basically the same image...gee I wonder why none of the Dell's I've bought have it...
Maybe it's an added-value feature...
Can't speak for the millions, just the two I received.
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[X] - my vague acquaintance in the digital age... |
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AnonProxy
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Well then millions of people must have it. They image those machines from basically the same image...gee I wonder why none of the Dell's I've bought have it... |
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Varangian
join:2002-12-08
Collinsville, IL
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well these cookie cutter machines all get the same drive iimage. So your new porn dialers will have been shared by the masses.
Some suit no doubt made a side deal to have this cr*p infiltrated onto Dell machines.
Or Dell is just another infinitely greedy and amoral corporation corroding our society with their grasping. (But who would ever suggest that? )
Buy your own full os and build your machine . That way YOU control the action. |
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paintref
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said by dg2 :
Last time I ran a spyware check on two Dell computers straight out of the box (pretty close to straight off the factory floor) I found two porn dialers (two on each machine.) Somehow I doubt that was part of a co-marketing arrangement...
Now it makes me wonder what are they doing at dell to have porn dialers on your machines & makes me wonder if mine had any when I got mine a year or so ago. |
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dg2
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1 edit | Last time I ran a spyware check on two Dell computers straight out of the box (pretty close to straight off the factory floor) I found two porn dialers (two on each machine.) Somehow I doubt that was part of a co-marketing arrangement... |
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