Thursday, May 27, 2004

Salon: "It's the war, stupid." 

A version of Yahoo's toolbar has an anti-spyware feature.  

It's Thursday and I'm still thinking about Sunday's episode of The Sopranos, that's how good it was. I guess we know who's going to get killed next. Will Tony have any blood relatives when it's over? Then a delicious thought, a Sopranos spinoff, set in hell, with all the characters who have been killed over the years. Some of the best ones. The star would be Pussy Bumpensiero. I just love that guy's name. He was Tony's best friend before he blew his brains out on a boat. 

For ten points, what's the connection between this picture of Bruce Springsteen and The Sopranos? 

J-Walk: "Dave Winer should know better."  

Postscript: Many people recommend Spybot and Adaware. I've run both apps, they're great, so refreshing after the virus-filled spy-ware experience I had before. Lots of great email from friendly users who have been down this path. This is the Web when it works. Thanks for all the help! It appears (praise Murphy) that I've dug out. Whew. 

Serves me right 

I did something realllly stupid this morning, I installed a free program that offered me a choice: $29.95 with no ads or $0 with ads. Since I was just checking it out, I opted for the $0 version. I figured a few ads, no problemmo. If I like it I'll pay the bucks. Big big mistake. Popups all over the place. Tons of virusware installed. I expect to be digging out all day.

To try to regain control of my system I installed the Google Toolbar for its ability to kill popup windows. It does seem to stop some of them, but a lot of them still get through. I'm running an Norton SystemWorks One Button Checkup now. It's impossibly slow. Hope it finds those nasty things that are popping up the windows. I bet they're also sending keystrokes back to the mother ship.