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| From | "Ray Brizzi" <fmsorigray@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Protection Racket |
| Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:44:16 -0400 |
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Some guy on audities wrote
This happened to me when I loaded the Radiohead CDinto my computer. I did
click "yes" and it installed
some sort of player that started playing the CD. I wish I hadn't done this
if it's some sort of spyware.
If indeed this is some sort of monitoring device, does anyone know how to
uninstall it?
)))(((
Download the free version of Ad-Aware from Lavasoft. It goes through and
finds all the spyware and popup generators and gives you the option to
delete them. This may cause problems with the products that install them,
like Kazaa. Make sure you take the backup option first so you can put back
the removed entries. I find it needs to be done several times somtimes
because some things keep reappearing. Also keep checking for the latest
updates before running it. New ones come in every few days.
Microsoft Media Player, which brings my laptop to a burping sputter, has an
interesting clause in their user agreement:
And there is NO WAY to get rid of it once it's installed.
From the 7.1 End User License Agreement... "* Digital Rights Management
(Security). You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and
software protected by digital rights management ("Secure Content"),
Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS Components that
will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security related
updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use
other software on your computer. If we provide such a security update, we
will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web site explaining the
update."
Pretty soon you won't be able to play anything. Notice the "automatic
download" (which affects Windows itself, not just media player)clause in
there. Maybe this is what you're running into.
Ray
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