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Originally posted by The Pro
Surely.... you musnt have noticed
To be honest, when i saw the soccer balls ad... my first thought was that i must have had some sypware installed, from somewhere and somehow, which were probably giving out all those ads. lol
tbh, that soccer ball add is IMO the least dodgy one.
"Do you have balls?" is a very common expression meaning "do you have the courage". There is absolutely nothing dodgy about it.
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Also note that spyware is quite often NOT associated with ads. Spyware does almost always what the words suggests: it spies. This implies that it does not show itself and tries to hide as much as possible. This is contradicting against showing ads.
However, people wrongfully classify or associate adware with spyware, while these two are majorly different. When you see ads: you should not automatically think "I have spyware", as that is wrong, you should think "I have adware".
This would be the same as seeing a billboard on the street and automatically thinking that someone is watching your every move. Both things are totally different.
It are the many anti-spyware and anti-virus companies which actually feed this wrong association by putting everything on one big pile by flagging almost everything with the same stamp. And if they make a distinction it is quite often in such small letters that the user doesn't even notice it, all the user sees is: "WARNING - VERY MALICIOUS THING FOUND - ALERT"...
PS: Don't get me wrong though, I don't like adware either (indeed, I don't like the Plus! sponsor either). But I do know and understand the nessecity of it and I don't put everything on one big pile; adware is adware and spyware is spyware.
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Originally posted by -!Felu!-
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Originally posted by M73A
does using a patch muck up the shared folders?
thanks...
Nope... But you can just remove the Sharing Folders button from the main window. Not from My Computer.
- Yes, it does. However, when you patch your messenger with some popular patches, they also patch/disable the procedure which checks if anything is altered in the executable (AFAIK, didn't checked with newer builds).
- You can remove it from "My Computer", just as you can remove it from the folder view in Windows Explorer as it is just another shell extension like so many others (control panel, network, recycle bin, ...) Some registry editing must be done though.... (don't have the right keys at hand here)....
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