  Doctor Four My other vehicle is a TARDIS Premium join:2000-09-05 Dallas, TX
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onto your system by ActiveX. Comet Curse (misspelled intentionally) was the first to take advantage of this, followed by Gator and that horrid purple Gorilla, Bonzi Buddy. (BTW, 2 of Bonzi's other offerings are questionable or even pure snake oil. Those are Internet Boost - does for $30 what many freeware programs will do, and Internet Alert - a pseudo-firewall that's really one of those "evil port monitors" Steve Gibson warns people about. Not only that, but probably get the gorilla as unwanted foistware.) -- "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who
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