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Re: ABC Scrabble, Webhancer, etc.
Thanks, B. You're teaching Grandma to suck eggs, here, and I know I should not have sucked that egg.
I think it illustrates that even those of us who are normally cautious can get caught sometimes. Hence the need for protection.
I posted this to be informative. In one sense, the most important part is Webhancer. It is an insidious, horrible, nasty piece of deceit. And it comes with lots of software, even apparently legitimate stuff. Webhancer tries to tell people that the programs associated with it may not work if it is un-installed. What a joke!
It is entirely possible that without a properly configured firewall and a really good anti-trojan many users would not know it was there, and when they discover it, if at all, they would probably use the uninstall from the standard "Add/Remove Programs" menu, then be possibly worse off.
If you look at Microsoft's article about removing it, it merely tells you to go the Webhancer web-site and use their un-installer. As I pointed out, the un-installer is also a trojan!
To be thorough, I also cleaned up all signs of these nasties in the Registry.
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| Of course; I appreciate that you've shared this. (By the way, the only place I've ever heard the "Grandma suck eggs" thing was Ren and Stimpy and I've never understood what it means.)
Question -- I don't imagine Webhancer's remotely trustworthy, but isn't it possible that BOClean flagged the uninstaller merely because it was from Webhancer OR because it was accessing the same trojan-y processes the installer would, in an attempt to shut them down?
I have no idea, of course, but it would make sense. I guess I'd be curious as to exactly what BOClean saw the uninstaller doing.
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Yes, that's informative. Thanks. |
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said by B  :Of course; I appreciate that you've shared this. (By the way, the only place I've ever heard the "Grandma suck eggs" thing was Ren and Stimpy and I've never understood what it means.) [...] One of the on-line dictionaries gives this:
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"teach your grandmother to suck eggs" (British & Australian)
- to give advice to someone about a subject that they already know more about than you. "You're teaching your grandmother to suck eggs, Ted. I've been playing this game since before you were born!"
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I can not find the origin. (You certainly get a lot of porn rubbish when you look it up in Google!)
My guess is that it may have something to do with Easter. Easter-eggs weren't always sugar and chocolate, they were real eggs! They still are in some parts of the world.
To make a real Easter-egg you have to get the gooey stuff out. The easiest way is to make a big enough hole in each end with a needle (not too big), stir the contents with the needle, then hold it high and suck on one end.
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Ronco Inside the Shell Egg Scrambler
Amazing ... it scrambles the egg right
inside the shell!
The Inside the Shell Electric Egg Scrambler from Ronco is one of the coolest products Ron Popeil ever invented. All you do is place an egg on the slanted needle, push through the shell, and then press down. The needle whips the egg into a perfectly smooth blend!
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Simple -- buy TWO from Uncle Ron, and turn one upside down to make the second hole.
Raking in the product placement kickbacks,
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said by richtig :To make a real Easter-egg you have to get the gooey stuff out. We hard boil 'em. Used Paas coloring and vinegar, crayons, the little wire egg basket to dip 'em in a big coffee cup.
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| But they go really smelly if you want to keep them for a few years!
...not eggs, but...
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I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli - George Bush (snr.)
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Hey, there's a bug in this editor. The first row of equals signs is inside the "small" brackets.
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