The 7 most hated Internet inventions

I would like to add an eight hated invention.

Squid Proxies
 
My main beef is currently Delta Toolbar and SearchProtect.... popping up on many client's computers.
 
I don't know how Twitter didn't make it onto the list...
 
Browser hijackers are my sworn enemy, I hate them to death.

Why arnt they on the list?
 
Interesting... any idea how it spreads?

Unwanted software installed with many games and freeware.
People clicking on spammy links that look like virus warnings or offers to "speed up your PC"
 
Bloatware

Install Adobe Acrobat Reader ............................................................ and this and that and something else you neither need nor want.
 
Unwanted software installed with many games and freeware.
People clicking on spammy links that look like virus warnings or offers to "speed up your PC"

I asked because we have witnessed it installing itself on a pretty well-secured Windows 7+ machine that doesn't have any weird or frivolous software or browser plugins installed. Somehow got past UAC and installed itself.

Scary stuff.
 
I asked because we have witnessed it installing itself on a pretty well-secured Windows 7+ machine that doesn't have any weird or frivolous software or browser plugins installed. Somehow got past UAC and installed itself.

Scary stuff.

Yep, I have also seen it do that. From what I can figure the culprit is old crap and temp files lying in the temp folder.
Cleaning out the temp folders definitely has an effect on it.
But I don't know what is really brining it in.
 
I wish I knew what drives somebody to want something called "Yontoo" or "Oople Toolbar" on their PC. It's like an online IQ test. If you have it, you fail.

Ja, but usually it is installed with some other freeware. And then people don't know to uncheck the box that prevents the stuff from getting installed along with it.

That's why I am installing Unchecky on all my client computers...
It automatically unchecks those boxes...
http://unchecky.com/
 
I asked because we have witnessed it installing itself on a pretty well-secured Windows 7+ machine that doesn't have any weird or frivolous software or browser plugins installed. Somehow got past UAC and installed itself.

Scary stuff.

if the user was running with client side admin rights, you cant call it even remotely secure.
 
The virus isn't an internet invention.

I asked because we have witnessed it installing itself on a pretty well-secured Windows 7+ machine that doesn't have any weird or frivolous software or browser plugins installed. Somehow got past UAC and installed itself.

Scary stuff.
You mean somehow it got past users. #blamejan :whistle:
 
But there's a flip side of the coin. How many jobs has this created to remedy this issue?
 
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