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1. CNET MAC VIRUS PROTECTION INSTALL
2. CNET MAC VIRUS PROTECTION SOFTWARE
3. CNET MAC VIRUS PROTECTION PC
4. CNET MAC VIRUS PROTECTION SERIES

There's no guarantee that anything you do can save it from dying young or failing to keep up with increasingly demanding tasks. The longevity horizon of a laptop is analogous to the longevity of a human: It partly comes down to responsible behavior, partly genetics and partly just dumb luck. There's a lot you can do to take better care of that old laptop and stretch its lifespan as long as possible. When you need to touch someone else's grody laptop and don't want to waste disposable protective gloves, you might try putting a sheet of cling wrap between your fingers and the keyboard.īefore you splurge on a shiny, new laptop, you may want to consider giving your current system some TLC. That will pretty much guarantee that the people who get the product from the web site, will need it very soon.Pro tip: If people refuse to touch your laptop without PPE, that's probably a sign it needs to be cleaned. On the other hand I note that you are still using the CNET store for your link.

CNET MAC VIRUS PROTECTION SOFTWARE

I also used several pieces of anti-malware software to try and get rid of it, and although each anti-malware software application “claimed” to have killed the “Ask toolbar” the only one that DID was MALWAREBYTES!!! Hooray for you folks! I tried using several methods to get rid of ASK, but “uninstall” no longer works, and neither does ALSO deleting the ASK “Program Files” directory, *AND* removing the registry entries that have references to it. Last I head that was considerd to be "illegah computer trespass" and a felony It turns out they were telling me what extra software they were foisting on me.Īnd I never once got to say no, and I count *NOT* have clicked anythig else as there was nothign else and I was not up next to the machine (sorry no telekinsis). I saw a few very rapid things go across the CNET download manger window which looked like banner ads.

CNET MAC VIRUS PROTECTION PC

What I got was a zip of my drivers, and also a fully installed (and already running?) group of programs - DEALPLY, MY PC BACKUP and the ASK toolbar as well as two new virus programs (at least.over 20 of them have been discovered by AVG since I went to DOWNLOADS.COM, and a few of the were major incursions - root kits)

CNET MAC VIRUS PROTECTION SERIES

I was several feet away from it, as a series of software package names (and short descriptions) flitted by in teh CNET download manager, looking a bit like "banner ads".īecasue *IF* I wanted to get that file from CNET then I had to use the manager.

I wasn't touching the computer at all when this went down. I have been in the IT world for a long time and am very cautious. Now people, I am outright paranoid when it comes to malware and virus software.

Yet, I had three pieces of software installed on my system by CNET whilst getting a simple driver, all without clicking one thing aside from”DOWNLOAD” and taking one “opt out”. I did *NOT* click anything else to get more garbage becasue there was only one "opt out" in the prcess' (which I d). This happens even if you use a direct link to the file (which very often is not even a choice anymore).ĭon't believe me? Look around on the web.|ĬNET more than promotes extra software these days.

CNET MAC VIRUS PROTECTION INSTALL

They just plain shove in extra software anbd install it without telling you. Now days they no longer even try to trick you. They startdout amazing, then they started to try and tempt peopel into downloading other pieces of software, then went to deceptive practices in theri efforts to get you do download things and they included BAD software like the "ASK TOOKBAR". I used to be a big fan of theirs., However they have changed and each step has been from bad to worse and worse than that.