Corrupted PCs Find New Home in the Dumpster

Corrupted PCs Find New Home in the Dumpster

Images-125 This is insane, these folks needs to grab MAKE. On a recent Sunday morning when Lew Tucker’s Dell desktop computer was overrun by spyware and adware – stealth software that delivers intrusive advertising messages and even gathers data from the user’s machine – he did not simply get rid of the offending programs. He threw out the whole computer. Link. A response here too.

0 thoughts on “Corrupted PCs Find New Home in the Dumpster

  1. whizzbang says:

    Fantastic! newer computers for dumpster divers!

  2. maremare says:

    He should have bought a Mac…

  3. kaden says:

    I Wonder where he bought his PhD…

  4. arc48200amc says:

    Must not be too smart. Why don’t people just buy a computer that won’t get spyware?

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