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"The activities the program is said to engage in include constantly resetting the user's web browser homepage to bonzi.com without the user's permission, prompt
by tomatotomato37 7y ago
"The activities the program is said to engage in include constantly resetting the user's web browser homepage to bonzi.com without the user's permission, prompting and tracking various information about the user, and serving advertisements"
My favorite quote, in that these activities are now essentially baked into Windows 10
- plotteddancer16 7y agoI’d categorize these activities as malware. Making unwanted mutable actions on my OS? Definitely malware...
- darkpuma 7y agoBy my current standards (which were totally mainstream in tech communities in the 90s) most modern non-FOSS software these days is malware. And some of the FOSS stuff is too, depending on what build you get.
- Causality1 7y agoHaving just this morning had to turn Automatic Updates back off on my Windows 7 box and (for the third time) fix the gyro sensor driver Windows 10's updates keeps breaking on my laptop, I feel you.