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2004-12-17 Down Under

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Posted by God Save The World 2004-12-17 9:06:05 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 When I first got pest patrol, I ran it and found almost 500 nasty little spyware adwre etc files buried in it. Limewire was better: only about 200. Was I ever pleased.

Posted by Weird Al 2004-12-17 7:24:01 AM|| 2004-12-17 7:24:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I use Spybot, AdAware and the new Yahoo anti-spyware programs. Run them all at least once a week, if one doesn't find a spy, the others do.

Posted by Steve 2004-12-17 8:33:56 AM|| 2004-12-17 8:33:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 There's another thing that Kazaa does. Y'know that click-through thingy that Amazon has where, if you buy a book via a link on someone's page, that person gets a kickback or some such? Kazaa changes the link so that Kazaa is listed as the referring party, no matter who referred you to the site.

Posted by BH 2004-12-17 10:23:27 AM|| 2004-12-17 10:23:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 There are Kazaa "Lite" versions around that have no spyware.

Posted by Crikey 2004-12-17 12:53:41 PM|| 2004-12-17 12:53:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 And I have some great swampland in Florida I can let you have real cheap. Set up something like pest patrol and clean out it's memory. Then log onto the Kazaa, Limeware sites, etc. Check pest patrol. Instant spyware from their home pages. (Limewire assured me they didn't have any either. Grokster is at least honest. When you go to their home site, they tell you what's going to happen).

Posted by Weird Al 2004-12-17 2:56:49 PM|| 2004-12-17 2:56:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Back in my day, we didn't have any sissy Windows or Icons. All we had were 1's and 0's. AND SOMETIMES, WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE 1's! I ran an entire network for a year using nothing but 0's. And we LIKED it!

Posted by Psycho Hillbilly 2004-12-17 5:06:51 PM|| 2004-12-17 5:06:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 did you wear an onion on your belt (which was the fashion at the time), Grandpa?

Posted by Frank G 2004-12-17 5:15:58 PM|| 2004-12-17 5:15:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I remember that onion, the whole clan lusted after it that winter. It was the same winter we made it to spring with one rasher of bacon and CPM running the windmill.

Posted by Grandy Pappy Amos 2004-12-17 7:33:41 PM|| 2004-12-17 7:33:41 PM|| Front Page Top

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