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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:04:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:04:58 PM EDT
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I did, but it was on an eMachine. Those never qualified as "computers".
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:05:34 PM EDT
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Oh hell yeah, epic IRL trolling was done in dem dorms.
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:06:04 PM EDT
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Who or what?
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:08:16 PM EDT
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I don't always have destructive malicious spyware on my computer,
But when I do, I prefer it to install itself. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:09:15 PM EDT
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What did it do? I'm assuming it was bad.
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:11:52 PM EDT
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Sure did
Had the parrot and the ape. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:14:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
What did it do? I'm assuming it was bad. It was more of an annoyance. Users would see the BonziBuddy links or ads that give you a little purple gorilla on your computer. It was supposed to be like a user agent, that would make your experience better, but mostly people installed it because it was fun or cute. It actually was adware and would pop ads over web content. Sysadmins hated that stuff, especially when computing power and internet bandwidth were more of a premium. Weatherbug was another common one. I don't recall it being malicious, but everyone had to have instant weather updates on their computer! |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:21:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:22:11 PM EDT
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Oh I'd almost forgotten about that....
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:49:32 PM EDT
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^^^that up there is what the computers at work look like...no shit! No one and I mean no one , can figure out how all those toolbars got there.
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:51:28 PM EDT
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^^^that up there is what the computers at work look like...no shit! No one and I mean no one , can figure out how all those toolbars got there. Sounds like you need effective group policy that prevents users from being able to do it as well as rigid desktop configuration management. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:52:56 PM EDT
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Quote Historynever met a taskbar he didn't install |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:53:44 PM EDT
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I installed it on a buddies computer :)
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:54:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:55:46 PM EDT
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Hell yeah.
~16MB download on dial up. Took forever, and wasn't worth it 
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Posted: 1/29/2015 6:57:12 PM EDT
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Holy shnikies. I was a young desktop guy back then.
Prowling HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for shareddll references. Killing PIDS...scrubbing files. I was a Win 98 cleaning machine. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 7:01:17 PM EDT
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Nope. Seemed shady right off the bat.
I tend to keep useless crap off my machines. |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 7:02:51 PM EDT
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Anyone that says they didn't and had a computer at that time is a liar!!!!!
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Posted: 1/29/2015 11:20:22 PM EDT
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No, but I had "Talking Moose" on my Mac Plus...
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Posted: 1/29/2015 11:25:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Nope. Seemed shady right off the bat. I tend to keep useless crap off my machines. What happened? Didja get your sense of adventure shot off in the war? |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 11:54:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone that says they didn't and had a computer at that time is a liar!!!!! |
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Posted: 1/29/2015 11:57:31 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/29/2015 11:58:03 PM EDT
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I did lol. There was also something else I installed like Bonzi Buddy but was half naked women that I forget the name of.
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