The Laughing DM » unwanted software offers http://www.thelaughingdm.com/wordpress Behind the screen you hear the clatter of dice. The Dungeon Master begins to laugh. What do you do? Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:18:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Unwanted Software Offers – #1 http://www.thelaughingdm.com/wordpress/2009/10/08/unwanted-software-offers-%e2%80%93-1/ http://www.thelaughingdm.com/wordpress/2009/10/08/unwanted-software-offers-%e2%80%93-1/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:59:00 +0000 DungeonMaster http://www.thelaughingdm.com/wordpress/?p=418 This one isn’t a tool bar.  But it is still one of those annoying things that is in an installation program that doesn’t really need to be present.  WinSCP, a handy utility for SFTP transfers, decided that it was necessary to offer to install WeFi as part of the process.  What WeFi has to do with SFTP baffles me.  At least the default was “Do not install.”

Free Application?

Free Application?

]]> http://www.thelaughingdm.com/wordpress/2009/10/08/unwanted-software-offers-%e2%80%93-1/feed/ 2 Demo Ware – #1 http://www.thelaughingdm.com/wordpress/2009/08/05/demo-ware-1/ http://www.thelaughingdm.com/wordpress/2009/08/05/demo-ware-1/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:12:07 +0000 DungeonMaster http://www.thelaughingdm.com/wordpress/?p=388 The installation for the latest version of Java for my Windows XP system prompted me to install a demo of Carbonite Online Backup instead of free toolbars.

Prompt to Install Carbonite

Prompt to Install Carbonite

While this is a refreshing change from the usual free toolbar crap that lots of vendors think needs to be installed on my systems, this is still annoying.  The default, particularly since this is a product that requires recurring payment, should be “No, I don’t want to install any extra programs.”  It is a noble goal to want to help users protect their files.  I just think that it is out of place for a vendor like Sun to make the “offer” in the way the did with a Java update.

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