Invasion of the Computer Snatchers

August 28th, 2003 Posted in 2003

After getting confronted with several performance issues with my computer recently—it got to the point where my cursor was moving at the speed of about a letter a second and I had to stop typing for a minute at a time to let it catch up—I went out and downloaded about five different ad, spam and general clean-up applications (or “apps”, I suppose, if I wanted to flaunt my technoinfobizspeak). Between the five of them, they uncovered some ungodly number of foreign objects on my computer; something like 600 of them. Just foul, in my humble o.

I now have an interesting device that pops up with a warning every time some evil-minded internet phallus tries to impregnate its ad-tracking seeds on my poor hard drive. Oddly, I find it opens about as often as a pop-up window. Disgraceful, really. I hope somebody figures out a way to make the net profitable somehow soon. All this subterfuge is starting to annoy.