Ten,amp,#39,Clock,Charley,and, DIY Ten O'Clock Charley and Other Irritants
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I'm tired of Ten O'Clock Charley. (MASH fans will get theconnection.) Charley is the twit that inevitably sends me 4-6 virusesby email a day or two after my newsletter is published. My anti-virussoftware picks them off like mosquitoes attacking a bug zapper. Heor she) must have subscribed using an autoresponder that isprogrammed to send out the viruses according to a set schedule.Maybe I'm just ready for a vacation, but I'm weary of the badbehavior that is so commonplace on the Net.I'm tired of deleting 150-200 spam emails daily.I'm tired of students contacting me to ask how much I would chargeto write their term paper. Here's a tip, kids. If you want a helpinghand, you'll find one at the end of your wrist.I'm tired of people sending me scathing emails because they'reconfused by somebody else's pop-under ads that they thinkoriginated at my site. Come to think of it, I'm even more tired of allthose pop-under windows in the first place.I'm tired of web sites that hold me captive and won't allow me to usethe Back Button on my browser to return to where I started. Why dodesigners do this? Do they believe that taking hostages will improvetheir chances of making sales?Those are my minor complaints. These are my major ones.I'm irritated that I had to spend most of a morning adding coding onmy web pages to protect myself against Microsoft's Smart Tags. Forthose who don't know, Smart Tag technology causes little icons toappear beside certain key words on your web site. When visitorsclick on the icons, they will be taken to another site -- possibly yourcompetitors. Microsoft has already included the technology inOffice XP, but has bowed to pressure and promised (?) not to add thetechnology to Internet Explorer 6. To protect your pages from MSSmart Tags, add this line to your Meta Tags:I'm even more irritated by Ezula's TopText, which comes bundledwith KaZaA, a third party plugin for IE. KaZaA is a freelydistributed file- sharing program has been downloaded over 7 milliontimes in a month and a half. The bundled TopText uses Smart Tagtechnology to hijack visitors from your site and send them elsewhere.Advertisers purchase keywords. When the browser encounters thatkeyword on your site, it underlines the word in yellow, then adds ayellow highlight when the mouse hovers over it. Clicking on thekeyword takes your hard won visitors away and deposits them at theweb site of the advertisers who purchased the keyword.I don't recommend you install this program yourself to experiment,because it is inordinately difficult to remove afterwards. For moreinformation, visit this link:Ongoing discussions at:http://gethighforums.com/Forum10/HTML/001386.htmlIf you've already installed the software, removal instructions are atthis link:http://www.whirlywiryweb.com/removeezula.htmAnd lastly, I'm irritated by the six varieties of spyware that Idiscovered installed on my computer without my knowledge. Theseapplications suck up computer resources, take up real estate on yourhard drive and slow you down while you're surfing. Worse, theygather information (who knows what?) about yourself and yoursurfing habits. The information is used for targeted advertising, or ssold to companies that collect information on web users. Of the sixvarieties I discovered on my computer, only one -- the free versionof Aureate Group Mail -- had been installed by myself. I had notunderstood that it was spyware. This spyware had gone so far asenmesh itself with the operation of my regular email client -- EudoraPro. To discover what spyware resides on your system, try the AdTracker, freely available from LavaSoft at http://www.lavasoftusa.com/Enough complaining for one day. Besides, it's almost time for TenO'Clock Charley.
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