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March 19th, 2004, 03:09 AM
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Re: Oh You JUST Gotta Love Microsoft!
That's nothing. Ad-Aware found a BHO called Alexa ... on my system after I had just reformatted and reinstalled XP. Sheesh. I never use IE, but still, what is this doing here at first install. If anyone ever wants to know why I gripe about M$ it's this: They work for advertisers, not for me. 
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March 19th, 2004, 04:13 AM
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Re: Oh You JUST Gotta Love Microsoft!
"Oh You JUST Gotta Love Microsoft!"
Uhhhh, not really... 
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March 19th, 2004, 10:18 AM
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Re: Oh You JUST Gotta Love Microsoft!
Where do advertizers want to go today?
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March 19th, 2004, 05:56 PM
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Re: Oh You JUST Gotta Love Microsoft!
Interesting... does it work with any browser? Or just IE? Is it a Win XP thing or is it in all Versions? I switched to Mozilla several months ago and I've always been very aware of what my connection is doing when Online. I dont think I've seen any suspicious activity.
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March 20th, 2004, 01:37 AM
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Re: Oh You JUST Gotta Love Microsoft!
Depends on the programmers of the browser. Hopefully it's just IE. Personally, I like my browsers to just be browsers, and not try to also be my computer's operating system, or something that allows remote computers to run programs on my computer without my explicit knowledge, etc.
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March 20th, 2004, 10:04 AM
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Re: Oh You JUST Gotta Love Microsoft!
I use Netscape. I love it.
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