SanJoseNerd
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join:2002-07-24
San Jose, CA
| Re: What would you find? 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. |
