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Looking to complete the triumvirate

Mar 9, 2006 5:48AM PST

Nominations are now open for an on air personality that has publicly stated "I get no Spyware"

John C Dvorak started it off with "I get no spam"

Molly Wood occupies the number 2 postion with "I get no viruses".

This is the modern tech version of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

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so funny

who will it BE?!

how about Steve Jobs...
"I got no good new ideas..."

oh snap. did i just say that?

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but more importantly . . .
Mar 9, 2006 9:08AM PST

. . . if such a person did indeed exist, which I seriously, highly doubt, I'd like very much to learn his secret.

I have some horrible spyware on my laptop that launches IE (I NEVER launch IE myself, ever) and runs it hidden in the background. It doesn't show up on the taskbar or the list of programs in the task manager, though it does show up on the list of "processes". I close it, it opens back up, and when it does it makes me lose keystrokes. And, I keep getting error messages saying IE encountered an error and needs to close. "Sorry for the inconvenience." UGH! the inconvenience is that IE was running in the first place.

All the anti-spyware programs I can find don't seem to be able to run with the 256 mb of RAM on my laptop, or they don't remove this particular pernicious form of bug.

I've never had a virus, like Molly, but I get lots of spam and spyware. Even though I never use IE. Sad

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(NT) (NT) Wouldn't that be most all Mac users???
Mar 9, 2006 10:47AM PST
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(NT) (NT) Hmm, I think I've found another reason to want a Mac!
Mar 11, 2006 1:51AM PST