Just a little rant on software that installs other stuff

[HyperHacker]

so, you guys been reading the deal about sony and it's dodgy rootkit then.

Also, why do companies feel the need to decide i must need and want a search toolbar, or is it they think people are to lazy to open a search engines homepage.

Because an IE toolbar is one of the easiest ways to get spyware into your system.

[keytotime]

We should make a post of software containing spyware

[suryad]

I didnt know toolbars were an easy means of getting crud in your machine....I use google toolbar extensively!

[Zxian]

whats VMware?

VMware is a virtual PC and Google is your friend.

Yes... but sometimes you can't really get a feel for what VMware is, even from the VMware website.

VMware creates a virtual computer within the application. In this virtual PC you can do just about anything that you could with a regular PC. I have a VM set up with a base Windows install, just for the purpose of testing out software.

[JoeMSFN]

Probably the only "real"? solution is to buy the product to support the software author and then install the cracked version from the net.

Downside with that is I'm too paranoid about stuff floating around the net. Who knows what kind of viruses and trojans that come unanounced with those "distributions"? Probably about as bad as the crapware that gets installed with the legit versions...