John R Bartow
jbartow at winhaven.net
Wed Dec 10 12:43:35 CST 2014
Chrome is big around here because the schools all jumped into Google docs. Kids tend to know little and do everything with confidence. Hence Chrome being inundated with crap ware. IOWs 'home user syndrome'. No one seems to pay attention to anything and if they do they tend to trust those suggestions(!) as something they should do. In businesses where they don't allow their users admin privileges, I have little to no problems with any browser. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan, Lambert Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 7:56 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE? Exactly. What reason is there to go anywhere else but Mozilla.org? Not all add-ins are bad of course. Web Of Trust is one I have in Chrome that I would not do without. Nor have I found Chrome to be 'hammered' with any unwanted add-ins. IMHO a major culprit is installation programs for other programs which have additional payloads that install if you do not pay attention to all those dialog boxes in the install process. Lambert -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John R Bartow Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 11:52 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE? Importance: High Which brings up a good point - download from the original developer (if possible). -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of peter.brawley at earthlink.net Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 7:56 PM To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com; dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE? most sites offering ff downloads bundle it with crapware. pb ---- Original Message ---- From: "Tina Norris Fields" <tinanfields at torchlake.com> Reply-To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Date: 12/09/14 4:40 PM To: "DatabaseAdvisors-Tech" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Cc: Sub: [dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE? Hi, My sister just purchased a new Dell Latitude, with Win 8.1. Suddenly, pop-ups appeared all over IE, Firefox seemed to disappear and become Speed Browser, a bunch of icons appeared on her desktop that were unwelcome. I got into IE and found add-ons that were aggressive adware - at least a dozen of them - and their "disable" option was unavailable. I did finally get rid of them, but I was astonished to see them in the first place. Has anybody else had this experience with a brand new machine? She had used IE to download Firefox, and was about to download her favorite antivirus program, when pop-ups began proliferating all over the screen. Some had nice little Xs in the top right corner, that looked like commands to close, but, when she clicked the X instead of stopping, it behaved as though she had said "Yes, go ahead." This so frustrated her that she just shut down the computer. So, today, I spent several hours cleaning it up. Thanks, TNF -- Tina Norris Fields tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com 231-322-2787 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com ---- End Original Message ---- _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com