I’ve been getting some very specific complaints about Nero 7 Essentials. “The computer slows down. It crashes. Started with the new DVD writer.” All the drives in question were bundled with the OEM version of Nero 7 Essentials. Time for another test. Test box for today is running an Athlon XP 1900+, Windows 2000 Pro […]
Had a request to look at this site. Tried it, with my usual test box of totally clean, totally unpatched Win XP Home, no service packs, no antivirus, no nothing of any kind, just running a hardware firewall in the router.
The about.htm page asked me to install the Chinese Language Pack. Answered OK, […]
Downloaded and tested the Crawler.com search toolbar, which allows users to search multiple search engines at once.
Test run Aug 25th, 2005, clean Win XP Home, no patches, not activated, no drivers except automatically-installed items from the Windows installation. Items listed as detected by HijackThis.
Installing the Crawler toolbar added these items to the system […]
Product Review–Yahoo Messenger
Test run July 20, 2005, default settings on clean install of Windows XP Home, OEM edition. Unpatched, no service packs, antivirus, or blocking software. Hardware firewall was the only security in place.
Version tested: Listed in ‘About’ box as “Yahoo! Messenger 6.0.0.1922 and MyYahoo Module 6.0.0.600, (C)1997-2004.”
Summary: Not evil, and not […]
Test run July 21, 2005, default settings on clean install of Windows XP Home, OEM edition. Unpatched, no service packs, antivirus, or blocking software. Hardware firewall was the only security in place.
Version tested: Listed in folder names as 4.6.1.0/
‘Click here’ on main Hotbar page gave no option, but started the “Take control of email” […]