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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.

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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.

Bah, I bet they haven't even tried MSG Plus! yet and don't know how obvious that installer is.

It's not exactly hard to remove the LOP program, there's guides on the internet, and anyone who doesn't know how to search Google for them is going to get far worse stuff than a lightened up version of the LOP program anyway.

Patchou tries to make it really obvious that its adware. However a lot of the stuff on that site is acurate, they really need to make it clear that it's a lightened down version of LOP and that it's easy to remove.

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Originally posted by Carltos Cool
from a company called Patchou

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Why doesn't the BBC actually research their stuff anymore...Patchou isn't a company.

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Originally posted by Anubis
Why doesn't the BBC actually research their stuff anymore...Patchou isn't a company.

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That is exactly what I thought, and I sent an email correcting them on the entire matter.

Meh... that article is old... October 20th, 2003.

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Originally posted by Anubis
Patchou isn't a company.

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Yes, it is. Source.


Edited to make sense.

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tbh, it's not worth getting frustrated with the uninformed people out there. More and more people are starting to use the Net on a daily basis, so they'll eventually learn the hard way.

yeah, the article is old, no need to talk about it