McAfee lists Adware in Top 10 Viruses 272
joelethan writes "In the new sensitive, caring world of Windows security McAfee Virusscan detects adware/malware, just like its competitors. A surprising consequence is that the McAfee's Regional Virus Info now regularly shows adware in its infection top ten. It feels so good to see old favorites like 180Search and DFC listed. "Now for your listening pleasure it's Adware.Gator at number 7 with a bullet..."
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Tums! (Score:4, Funny)
Geek: "Helpdesk, how can I help you?"
Hapless Worker Drone: "I have all these funny ads that keep popping up!"
Geek: "Did you install that nifty new weather bug, or that 'Gator' thing?"
Hapless Worker Drone: "I didn't install anything! This is your fault! You guys are supposed to protect us!"
Geek: "See that socket over there? It's the automatic anti human virus protecter, stick your finger in and call me in an hour"
Claria... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Claria... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Time to cut your virus count (Score:5, Funny)
Re:All we need now.. (Score:1, Funny)
might as well also include spam while you're at it...
ohw, and hardware vendors should not be allowed to release a new product without working linux drivers! Punishable by making theirs specs 'open'...
Man, if i could only rule the world! It would be a much better place... or would I be easily corrupted? ];)
Re:Tums! (Score:0, Funny)
Re:damn.. (Score:1, Funny)
Unless, of course, you do it properly. But complaining is so much easier, eh?
My, I'm really turning into one of those bitter old posters who just goes around smacking down teenagers
Re:Time to cut your virus count (Score:0, Funny)
I can still do that with women, though, right?
Re:Time to cut your virus count (Score:1, Funny)
But (Score:2, Funny)
I really, really, want to open "pamanderson.exe" and "AllWindowsCrackz.exe"
Re:Does Linux have a Top Ten list yet? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Tums! (Score:3, Funny)
And it's only getting worse.
The other day a fellow network tech here at my new job mentioned he had to de-spyware his own pc as it was getting absolutely over-run with browser hijackers, spyware, and the ilk.. We've all gotten something we didn't want before, but his laptop is as bad as some of our worst offendrs'.
I quietly told him not to mention that to anyone else, and gave him the url for mozilla.
Re:List linked in summary not that great; look her (Score:3, Funny)
Re:good move/about time (Score:1, Funny)
?!?!?!?!?! As if it isn't bad enough that multiple losers insist on using the non-word "virii" now we have losers who mis-spell the non-word "virii", too!
Fight fire with fire. (Score:3, Funny)
1)Make a copy of their agreement, and replace "The cool thing we say we do" with "Free pizza for the office"
2)Replace "We get to infest your machine with junk" with "We get to tar and feather you and put pictures on the internet"
3)Get together a bunch of cheese pizzas and head to their office. Get them to sign the modified agreement for delivery.
4) Proceed to tar and feather the person that signed for the pizza, and share the fantastic photos on the internet.
Remember, it's not assault, it's marketing they agreed to in the license. The beauty of it is that if they fight it, they fight their own agreement, and we can use anything they do to get them to be responsible for the *hundreds of millions of dollars* of damage they have caused to innocent people's computers.
-Z
McAfee lists it.slashdot.org color scheme a virus (Score:2, Funny)
http://shit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/17/