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following my previous message about anti virus (basically I have a new laptop and removed pre installed McAffee), I later realised that McAffee is, in fact, a virus itself!
Case in point, I later installed a few PDF reader, including (I know, my mistake) Acrobat Reader!
Imagine my surprise when this also installed (without any warning, prompt, confirmation) McAffee again! Including a little service that on every startup prompted me to install McAffee and no obvious way to uninstall it!
Die McAffee, Die!!!!
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How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus - John McAfee[^] NSFW.
Seriously, NSFW at all.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Best technique, definitely! ^_^
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That is brilliant & hilarious. I would love to be able to share with my work colleagues, but it's probably a straight dismissal.
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I don't remember my copy of McAfee coming with those babes.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You need to upgrade to the pay-for version.
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It's not just the crapware that comes with new PCs that has to be shunned, it's the apps that bundle the same crapware. I have no problem with naming and shaming. And Adobe has always been at the top of that list as far as I'm concerned.
As a general rule, never use Express Install for any app if you can help it. If there's an option to do a Custom Install, use that, and walk through the wizard--sometimes these "optional" apps will be revealed there. Not a guarantee this will always be the case, but it's certainly easier to do that than to try to uninstall something it turns out you didn't want.
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Super Lloyd wrote: Acrobat Reader That's been a problem with Acrobat Reader for a long time. Their default is to include the crapware. We had to switch to a freeware PDF reader for online documentation with our distributions to avoid it.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Was the spade a ground breaking invention?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Your heart was in that one. It was more important than the club, and you could use it to look for a diamond!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Your argument is not solid enough, it's a veritable house of cards.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I thought someone would trump that - it was on the cards.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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You guys are two of a kind.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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OriginalGriff wrote: I thought someone would trump that I was just biden my time.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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You said that just to harris him, didn't you.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Kamala guys, back to the card metaphor...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yes but it was a downhill spiral. When they hit rock bottom they invented the pickaxe.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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My experience was the opposite. Once we spade the dog he stopped breaking ground altogether.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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That soil very well for digging up some dirt on the tool, but that pitch is forked up. The hole thing might be hosed.
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It was invented by Doug Upton.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Yes. But the jackhammer was earthshaking.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It could sieve some earthshaking time.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Yes, the spade told the ground to shovel off.
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We need a "frustration index" when we log time. On a scale from, say, 1 to 3, which automatically multiplies the logged time by the frustration index. So if we put in 3 hours on a frustrating project and give it a frustration index of 2, the actual time logged is 6 hours, so we can take 3 hours to psychologically recover.
If time cards actually did that, I bet managers would pay a lot more attention to making life less frustrating for developers!
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