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General state of computer usage.
I am 82 years old & my first computer was a Tandy Radio Shack TRS 80! It was great! It had 2-5 1/4 floppy drives. Input was with a cassette recorder. ThE OS was "Basic". I was King of all input & output! No virsus, Bloatware, only bugs that were mine & I had to sort them out! I wrote great programs in the "Spaghette" language. Very important programs!!
Now we are at apoint where every body is trying to "Hack", "Pop Up" you, give you a "Virus" Sell you Vagra, Penus enhancement, & porn sites.
I dare not "download anything" Even if you pay for it, in fear it will not do what you were told it would do or not install because of a conflict with other software.
Case in point, The Adobe "Cannot Open File %APPDATA%. The old 1606 error that everybody knows about & nobody fixes it.
I BOUGHT McAfee Anti Virus software. The software program is excellant, here comes "the sting in the tail". It also includes "McAffe Online Backup".
Of course It installed automatically. I filled out what was to be backed up & when.
Very shortly I received an error "You Quota has been exceeded !"
What quota!! What program created the error! Not a clue!
Finally I deduced that it was the McAffe online backup. I clicked on the Online Backup Icon & it went to a website That stated "You have exceeded your quota" please increse your quota to xxxgb for $95." Or something like that, I was seeing red about that time. Ther is no way of uninstalling this unwanted software that I paid for. I still get the "Quota" error, Adobe "Update" pop up that creates the "1606" error, The "Update Checker" pop up, Etc. Afetr about 5 or 6 pop ups, I can use my computer!! No way to cancel the POP UPS & ERRORS!!!! Sorry for my Rant I am about to quit what used to be a pleasureable expirence. It comes down to GREED!!
Last edited by Tullynally; 25 Aug 2011 at 08:38. Reason: Spelling