 HappyBunnyHi. Cram It.Premium
join:2001-06-23
Long Beach, CA
kudos:1 | reply to ollie232
Re: Charter installs Spyware at installation (cfd. As far as Support Soft goes, it is not compatible with macs, so I haven't had to worry about that.
But Broadjump *is*. They are obviously savvy enough marketers to know Mac users are early adopters of new technologies, so they dont want to miss out on that marketing push! However, the Charter tech that installed my broadband last year didnt want to touch my Mac, so I escaped its deathly touch.
Charter is not the only one using broadjump. SBC/Yahoo packages it in their startup cd--so along with the Yahoo marketing mess, you can get ads schlepped to your desktop. It was very difficult to open a new DSL account *without* using the broadjump-infested cd--a novice would have never figured it out--nor indeed even understood why they should NOT install it.
As an aside, I have both a pc and a Mac at work--one thing I have noticed is how many more ads the pc receives. Some of these little nasties apparantly are unable to execute or push themselves into my vision on the Mac, and for that, I thank Steve Jobs 
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