Warp wrote:
> Halbert <hal### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> I think most of the time these people aren't paying attention to the things 
>> they click on including reading the license agreements, etc.
> 
>   I suppose that it wouldn't help to install a good firewall and resident
> malware scanners in their computers because they would nevertheless pay
> zero attention to what the software is telling them and allow everything.

Yeah. Part of the problem is that companies get paid *big* bucks (relatively 
speaking) to put thngs like Google's toolbar and Yahoo's toolbar and AOL's 
tool bar and every other piece of crapware out there that they can. You can 
(or at least could) get something like $5 every time some customer agrees to 
install Yahoo's toolbar, which is a *lot* of money when you're distributing 
ad-supported software with a $0.05 click-thru payment on the ads.

I bought a 4-core x64 2.88GHz machine with 6G of RAM and gigabit ethernet. 
And it came with a 56K modem card, so they could put Earthlink and AOL and 
Juno and ..... links on the desktop. They *have* to be getting a kickback on 
those icons big enough to justify putting in a modem card nobody in their 
right mind is going to need. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.

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