Son Goku
No lover of dogma
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- 14 Jun 2004
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Ya know? I just had one of those convs that brings this up yet again. Apperently, when I was on the phone with my father, he was infected with some spyware. Luckily for him in this case, Norton removed this bit for him. However, in mentioning that he should get Adaware and Spybot, he was like "why should I download something. Norton removed that..."
Well, it removed that bit, but who knows what else might be on his system. Mind you, this is a person who well meaning, used to forward all the emails he got about supposed viruses that were making their rounds on the Internet. I'd look the thing up (not to mention that some of the claims like infecting text files and burning out people's hard drives seemed far fetched), and practically every single one came up as a virus hoax, meant to scare people...
The good side is, that with something bundled, people like my father will have something that can weed some of this stuff outa their systems, when it's something they aren't entirely aware of. The bad side, these same people can be left thinking they don't need anything more (if their prog isn't the most thorough, and in the case of Norton that is debatable), and therefore assume they're now safer then they are.
Hmm...
Well, it removed that bit, but who knows what else might be on his system. Mind you, this is a person who well meaning, used to forward all the emails he got about supposed viruses that were making their rounds on the Internet. I'd look the thing up (not to mention that some of the claims like infecting text files and burning out people's hard drives seemed far fetched), and practically every single one came up as a virus hoax, meant to scare people...
The good side is, that with something bundled, people like my father will have something that can weed some of this stuff outa their systems, when it's something they aren't entirely aware of. The bad side, these same people can be left thinking they don't need anything more (if their prog isn't the most thorough, and in the case of Norton that is debatable), and therefore assume they're now safer then they are.
Hmm...