Screaming Bean |
Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Here's hoping the day has found you without the fallout from the LoveSan virus. While my home computers are safe and clean, the same cannot be said of work. In fact, I started the day with having to sit through a forced update script by the IT department which had a number of pop up errors..."Yes I know I don't have XP...Yes I know I don't have 2000..." However, in the aftermath of the script I seem to have gained some really annoying adware. I can't find it on my local drive with AdAware, but it's residing somewhere. I gain two or three popups with every new page on Yahoo. Not just the little innocuous ones either, but the ones that pop up and say, "Hey, you should install this...click yes and it will be done!" So far I've gotten them for Gator, WeatherCast, and Speed Blaster, and that's without leaving Yahoo. And did I mention the extra "click" I hear when I click a link? No I'm not paranoid, it's there. Something is tracking me. I'm very intune with my computers, and I know when something is up...even if the Help Desk is ignoring me.
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