Thank God I'm using a Mac


One of our reference desk computers running W2K has this ABetterInternet adware on it that is impossible to remove. Even Microsoft's AntiSpyware Beta can't kill it. That's reassuring.

So...why aren't we using macs on the desk? Basically, it's because of the Horizon catalog running only on PC's. We don't do anything else at those desks that's PC specific.

Anyway, back to the bitching. If you go out to the web and look for help, i.e., how do I remove this thing?, you find a number of sites that list what to do: kill processes, unregister DLLs, clean the registry, remove files, etc. A lot of work for someone's careless click on a link or opening of an attachment by mistake. Then to do all that and find out that the adware wasn't removed, that's a treat.

To make a short story shorter, the adware's still on there. What's it gonna take? A clean reinstallation of the OS?

He approaches the pulpit one more time. Folks, do yourself a favor, and drop Windows like the fetid rotting potato that it is. Let your IT staff enjoy the pleasure of removing malware while you get some work done on your Mac.

Over and out.

Posted: Fri - June 24, 2005 at 02:16 PM      

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