Exorcise the Demons That Come Preinstalled (New York Times)
Call it junkware. Or bloatware or demoware or adware. It?s the software preinstalled on new Windows computers. In other words, marketers are using the computer you just bought as a billboard.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 (Deccan Herald)
Call it junkware, bloatware or demoware or adware. Computer users denounce it as crapware. It's the software preinstalled on new Windows computers... (Bloatware is entirely a Windows issue; Macs don’t have such software.)
Recent Original Stories (OS News)
Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista without users' knowledge , even when the users have turned off auto-updates. Many companies require testing of patches before they are widely installed, and businesses in this situation are objecting to the stealth patching.
‘Antivirus’ bug hits Rio theater Web site (Kerrville Daily Times)
Trying to find the latest times for the local showing of “The Dark Knight” may prove troublesome for your PC. Computers around the world are struck by computer viruses every second, but one floating around right now hits close to home.
Measuring malware infections in the Chinese Internet (ZDNet)
Guest editorial by Oliver Day In June 2008, StopBadware published a report with statistics (.pdf) based on our sample of infected website data from Google. In those statistics we noted that over half of the infections came from addresses originating in China. We've received some attention for...
