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Originally posted by BBC - Webwise
Perhaps the worst thing is that Lauren installed lop herself.
She recently found a cool program called Messenger Plus!, from a company called Patchou, that adds extra features to MSN Messenger.
Unfortunately when you install it you also get a copy of lop, presumably because the people making Messenger Plus! get paid to do this.
You can decide not to install lop, but you have to know what you’re doing and click ‘No’ at the right time.
Very few kids, and not many new net users, will realise what’s going on, and as a result they will get this nasty little program on their computer.
And unless they’ve got a techie friend, they may well be stuck with it.
It all goes to show that you have to be very careful what you download from the web, or you could get a lot more than you bargained for. Lauren certainly did.
from:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/column/column201003.shtml
I mean come on you don't "have to know what your doing" to not install the sponsor.
