Product Review–SmileyCentral (Ask Jeeves, Inc.)
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: No version number, but copyright date in the license is June 1, 2005. Also known as [...]
Yup, that’s what’s on screen this morning. I’ve been Updated, and there is this always-on-top message asking me to click on “Update”. Somehow or another, Viewpoint Media Player slipped past a fully-patched Win 2000 Pro setup with blocking in place on the autoplay settings. The product claims to send non-personally-identifiable information back to a [...]
Just finished building a new box for a client. Took the opportunity to grab the task list. The list below is what Windows Task Manager reported as running processes immediately after installation, after hardware detection, but before any drivers were installed. No patches, no antivirus, no software installs of any kind, no exposure to the [...]