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There are computer viruses, malware, spyware, and the variously named Conduit Toolbars.[/caption]
Today I got to once again eXPerience Microsoft's most venerable, and vulnerable, operating system as I cleaned up the doo-doo after a friend's update of Adobe's desktop Flash.
Adobe thinks nothing of letting out-and-out spyware piggyback on it's Flash installers and updaters; it's called a "bundled download." Adobe give you the chance to disallow the third-party ware to install along with Flash,but you have to be paying attention. Lots of people trust Adobe, like my friend did. These days, trusting in Adobe updaters gets you not just Flash, but new Web browser features in the form of the Conduit Search spyware.
There are computer viruses, malware, spyware, and the variously named Conduit Toolbars.[/caption]Today I got to once again eXPerience Microsoft's most venerable, and vulnerable, operating system as I cleaned up the doo-doo after a friend's update of Adobe's desktop Flash.
Adobe thinks nothing of letting out-and-out spyware piggyback on it's Flash installers and updaters; it's called a "bundled download." Adobe give you the chance to disallow the third-party ware to install along with Flash,but you have to be paying attention. Lots of people trust Adobe, like my friend did. These days, trusting in Adobe updaters gets you not just Flash, but new Web browser features in the form of the Conduit Search spyware.
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