The PC Decrapifier - Is It Needed?
Came across this the other day - “The PC Decrapifier” software. Looking at this one can only say “what the…”
Dear oh dear, you know things are bad when a situation gets to the point where someone writes a piece of software (and is no doubt making tidy profit out of it) specifically to address (exploit) a situation in Windows computers caused by PC manufacturers, and Microsoft themselves, exploiting PC purchasers. Before you can even begin to use the computer you paid for, you have to pay someone else to get rid of stuff which shouldn’t have been put on it in the first place!
Reminds me of the war between telemarketing companies in the U.S. who employed automated diallers to ring people’s home phones. Then companies came along which made a very tidy living distributing hardware which could pick up on the telephone line the fact that these automated calling machines were calling, and then trashing the call, thus helping to save the sanity of the poor person in their home. Then it got to an escalating technology war between A - the telemarketers, and B - the hardware anti-telemarketers, with A dreaming up ways to circumvent B’s blocking technology, and B upgrading their equipment. All the while the bunny in the middle had to keep on upgrading their gear to preserve some privacy from the telemarketers. Crazy.
So same situation here, when the solution is… don’t allow it in the first place!
Of course this mostly only happens in the “land of the free…”
p.s. for anyone who’s suffering from this, here you go.
