six9
join:2001-12-03
Atlanta, GA
 ·Comcast
| reply to TamaraB
said by user=TamaraB :
The manufacturer's disregard for safety, and the manufacturer's deceptive marketing and advertising practices.
Alas... There you go. I hear ya man! But you can't possibly be talking about Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.
From how I read that, blame M$ for only allowing either admin or user for XP Home. (Yes, i know you can do it but it is a PITA to set up accounts that are more than user and less than admin) Face it, Joe Blow buying a Dell isn't going to drop an extra $119 on XP Pro so he can run limited users. That's what we do. And even if we pass on Pro at ordering, we use VLK copies so we don't deal with activation.
I cringed at what one of my users told me today. She said "a friend of mine downloaded Office XP for me off Limewire" and all I could think of was "what kind of viruses and spyware you must have."
I still feel ISPs have a hand in this. When they run the CD on machines, set up a proxy that blocks CWS, gator, etc. WE know how to get rid of it but grandma doesn't need to. Back in the days of @Home their CD set up proxies. That rocked if your IP was banned from a site. Back then IPs were static too. Gawd, for the old days. LOL! |
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