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Toolbars on my toolbars
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:21 pm
by kevm14
Re: Toolbars on my toolbars
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:23 pm
by kevm14
Fortunately it's reddit so it's ALL funny.
[–]Runs_With_Fiskars 7 points 1 hour ago
I found the problem with my mom's computer always breaking down. She'd look up innocent things such as a chimichanga recipe and she'd get a trojan virus, I shit you not.
[–]CosmicJ 11 points 1 hour ago
Download recipe-book-chimichanga-best.PDF.exe ? Yes! (Warning, executable files may be harmful to you computer. Proceed?) YES DAMNIT!
Re: Toolbars on my toolbars
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:36 pm
by kevm14
[–]pepsiguy24 38 points 3 hours ago
My bet is whenever he installs something, he clicks the fake "agree" button that gives you a toolbar. He probably doesn't know how to get rid of them.
[–]EddiePsgetti 67 points 3 hours ago
My bet is that he installed Java and forget to uncheck the "Ask" toolbar shit. From there, it's like germs multiplying in a Petri dish.
[–]Chummin 11 points 2 hours ago
Adobes Reader and Flash downloads have the same BS in them also.
[–]blowuptheking 6 points 1 hour ago
I hate updating flash now. First the program gives a window asking to be updated. Clicking OK in that window opens a browser, which takes you to a page where you have to uncheck installing McAfee and once you press download it just downloads a tiny program that pulls from the web anyways! There's no reason they couldn't have done that from the initial program window!
Also there's a 3-nested-quote max for this forum. Oh noes.
Re: Toolbars on my toolbars
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:38 pm
by kevm14
Priceless.
[–]LOLBaltSS 400 points 3 hours ago
7 toolbars, IE8, and Windows XP (EOL as of last week). Mother of god.
[–]lionel1024 177 points 1 hour ago
Twist: His coworker is actually an ATM.
[–]Atlas26 39 points 1 hour ago
ATMs run on Windows...?
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Re: Toolbars on my toolbars
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:41 pm
by kevm14
There's a section about the age of the guy. It's not what you think. The point is, 40 isn't old, especially with regard to computers. 40 somethings SHOULD be considerably better at computers than your average 20 something.
[–]cheatonus 64 points 1 hour ago
You do realize that those of us who are approximately 40 years old all were teenagers when the Internet was a new thing right? It's not as though we grew up with Perry Como and 5 cent coca-cola. I've used every version of windows, seen the evolution of the Mac, linux, browsers, tcp/ip, and been in IT for almost 20 years. This ill fated browser has nothing to do with his age, but with his level of dumbass.
Re: Toolbars on my toolbars
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:46 pm
by kevm14
This actually gets to a serious topic I've discussed before.
[–]wcg66 6 points 1 hour ago
I'm definitely not one of the people that say "kids of today, they are so good with technology!" In fact, it's the opposite. Growing up during the birth of home computers means you saw all the nuts and bolts. Nothing was user friendly and ready to do much out of the box.
It was the exposure to those nuts and bolts that encouraged tinkering, imo.
