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> And no matter how technical you might be, most of the installers are so confusing that there’s no way a non-geek could figure out how to avoid the awful. Or
by ZoFreX 12y ago
> And no matter how technical you might be, most of the installers are so confusing that there’s no way a non-geek could figure out how to avoid the awful.
Or even a geek who is in a hurry. I came very close to accidentally installing crapware when I was downloading things from Sourceforge the other day. It's no wonder regular end-users end up with all this crap.
- kristofferR 12y agoUnchecky fixes that.
- nmeofthestate 12y agoI installed crapware on a brand new laptop a few weeks ago. I searched for "chrome" in IE, clicked the top paid link on bing.com - malware. Unbelievable. System restore worked well to fix that screw-up.
- nmeofthestate 12y agoBy the way, I just checked and this is STILL happening on bing.com: Top paid result for "chrome" is the following crapware site: http://google-chrome-uk.download-assist.com/ http://google-chrome-uk.download-assist.com/