For All the Windows Users!

POSTED BY: JRC
UPDATED: Monday, January 24, 2005 09:36
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JRC

Friday, January 21, 2005 7:55 AM

This is WAY too high-larious!!:
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/01/microsoft_antispyware.html

Everyone dies alone.

RAT

Friday, January 21, 2005 7:59 AM

I'm glad I dont update!

-Ratboy

THRAWN

Monday, January 24, 2005 6:10 AM

I hate to break it to you, but that's a joke.

RAT

Monday, January 24, 2005 6:19 AM

Yha' I think we knew that. And it's still hi-larious!

-Ratboy

MONTANAGIRL

Monday, January 24, 2005 6:38 AM

I know that's a joke, but something kinda close happened when I updated the Service Pack 2 a while back. (I have to say that this is my first computer, and I know next to nothing. As far as I knew, updates were for our own good and we should use them. Ha ha.) Afterwards, the only way I could use my internet explorer was if I pretty much disabled all my anti-virus. I spent hours on the phone with both my ISP (which was actually helpful, just not in solving the problem) and Dell (which wasn't). I finally bumbled around on my own and discovered System Restore, restored my computer to an earlier point, and voila! everything worked again. So now I am extremely suspicious of anything that comes from Windows. I wouldn't be surprised if they actually did something like this.

Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.

PHOEBE

Monday, January 24, 2005 8:37 AM

LMAO.... joke or not, that is funny. Even funnier considering they're likely enough to pull a stunt like that.

I'm hoping some people take it seriously. And move over to reliable competitors to IE, i.e., Firefox, which doesn't get laden down with spyware every time you breathe on it.

JRC

Monday, January 24, 2005 9:36 AM

I think this story was written because a couple of weeks ago, on someone's blog, they wrote a story about using the new Microsoft spyware program they had just installed on their Windows XP computer. When the program finished, it said that it had detected itself as spyware! (or something like that). A Windows-using friend of mine at work said this, "Am I supposed to be surprised by this?" (!) Is this the norm for Windows? In case you were wondering, I have been using Apple Macintosh computers since the late '80's at work, and currently use a G5 at work and here at home.

Everyone dies alone.