I was installing stuff onto my new machine this weekend (replacing Black, my venerable old black Dell notebook -- the new one is Grey, a shiny new Alienware beast that hopefully'll last me at least as long as Black did), and suddenly I found my Internet Explorer had a Yahoo toolbar. Since all I'd done was to check mail, that means that Yahoo ran a script on my machine to install this software against my will, and is probably doing the same to other folks's computers. I'm outraged, personally, although Yahoo probably doesn't give a crap about that, even if I do pay them money for their service.
If your browser suddenly gets a Yahoo toolbar, before they can do anything nefarious with it, go to the control panel, to "install/update/remove software" and scroll down to the bottom of the list. You can get rid of it with a click of the mouse. I can't promise it'll stay gone, though. And people wonder why Google is so successful when most of the industry is run by crooks!
Monday, October 03, 2005
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