[SEL] Spyware & Freeware (Correction)

[bill at antique-engines.com]

Not ALL "free" stuff has nasties - WinMX is clean.......... Bearshare is -
or WAS filthy dirty.
Spybot Search & Destroy is clean and good.
Firefox is a lean mean, and clean, browser. And Free.

Just beware.........

Since there are now alternatives to the Adobe products, I find them slow,
lame and inflated. I'm switching to alternatives. They are no longer the
only show in town, and their PDF creating software is horribly expensive
and bloated and not all that reliable compared to alternatives.

bilL

> Alert. I am agreeing with Arnie.
>
> I have been trying to get a friend to either buy Adobe reader or use one
> of
> the free writers.  He says all free stuff has virus.  There is just no
> convincing him.
>
> The oldest free ware I know of is PK Zip.  (I am not sure it still is,  I
> bought a commercial version of it some time ago.
>
> TClockEx   is a handy program that I always have running.
>
> Here is one that I think Arnie will like
> http://www.web-ee.com/Downloads/Calculator/V41R8.exe
>
> And here is one for Dave.
> http://www.softslide.com/downloads/k_and_e_slide_rule.exe
>
> Frank
>
> At 09:05 AM 1/11/2005, you wrote:
>
>>Hi Bill,
>>
>>On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 bill at antique-engines.com wrote:
>>
>> > Watch out - some "anti-spyware" out there is actually spyware in
>> itself -
>> > it installs some of the very stuff you get it to remove!
>> > How in the world do people think that someone can release FREE
>> software?
>> > Uh-huh - it's supported by marketing and advertising - "spyware" that
>> it
>> > installs.
>> > EVEN spyware removers in some cases install adware and spyware!
>>
>>Interesting comment.  Can you provide some specific examples?
>>
>> > There is pretty much no such thing as REAL free software.
>>
>>I beg to differ.  http://www.tucows.com and http://www.gnu.org
>>
>>These are a couple of the oldest and most widely used resources on the
>>net.  Gnu software is nearly universal in the Unix and Linux worlds.
>>
>>Do any of these ring a bell?  Adobe Reader, Irfan View, Spybot,
>>Ad-Aware, Linux, etc.  There's even a widely used term to describe it;
>>"Freeware".
>>
>>I think in a fit of Messianic zeal, you may have over-generalized.
>>Despite the popularity of the expression TANSTAAFL, _sometimes_ there is.
>>
>>See ya,  Arnie
>>
>>Arnie Fero
>>Pittsburgh, PA
>>fero_ah at city-net.com
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