Beware #Malware

How to avoid potentially unwanted programs

By Wendy Zamora | February 19, 2016

If you’ve ever downloaded software onto your computer, chances are you’ve unknowingly cluttered your machine with PUPs. Here’s what you need to know about these sneaky programs.

What are PUPs?

If you’re thinking baskets of doe-eyed baby dogs, then you’re sadly mistaken. PUPs is the acronym that stands for Potentially Unwanted Programs. Also called bundleware, junkware, or PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications), PUPs are software programs that you likely didn’t want installed on your computer. Why not? Here are a few things that PUPs can do:

  • slow your computer down
  • display numerous annoying ads
  • add toolbars that steal space on the browser
  • some collect private information

PUPs often come bundled with software that you did, in fact, want to download. By swiftly clicking through an installation, it’s easy to miss the fine print and “agree” to these extra applications.

Courtesy of John Rubens and MalwareBytes

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#ScrambleWarrant

I bet if I had kept up with the technology of law and the courts/legislature, I would have heard of scramble warrants.  That’s a speculative warrant allowing sabotage or a scrambling of images or a complete breakdown of two-way communication with the server[s] while online…then the Windows pop-up appears in the lower right hand corner of the screen.

Also from https://johnrubens.wordpress.com related to the same speculative fiction…

Outer Limits: “We will control… .” Breaking windows. Liberation Theology. #WindowGlazing #WindowRepairandReplacement

 

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JEB2016 to #JEB2020

Final thoughts John Ellis Bush?” #JEB2020

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@thedailybeast If I could leave the country I would, but I’m stuck with my debt to a few that remain here: #USA #Patrie @DHSgov #Immigration

and counter-part [?] emigration?

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I Got Some New Book Titles:

What do you think: Half-Naked Man and The Australian [Vet’s 0r Redneck’s] Daughter.

#RunningWithThePack “You can’t hold me down, you can’t hold me back.  I’m going my [our] own way. People running.” @BadCompany “Moving on…moving out.”

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Of course this is Prince’s passport photo #MelissaMaxxBirthdayWishes: #TJMAXX

MelissaMaxx of KLOS was right about one thing: February has been a month Prince has been waiting for but never arrived in 1999.

Super Bowl Mardi Gras Lent @Pontifex in #Mexico #Cuba #ValentinesDay #PresidentsDay #GRAMMYs

It’s exactly what you’d expect from the High Priest of Pop.

Did I mention the birthday of MelissaMaxx falls in February?

Source: Of course this is Prince’s passport photo

compilation by #ConsequenceofSound http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/02/feast-your-eyes-on-princes-perfect-passport-photo/http://JohnRubens.wordpress.com

http://JohnRubens.wordpress.com It’s easier for me to collaborate via computer, then the drinking doesn’t start after work due to peer pressure–it’s all me.

Image from #MelissaMaxxBirthdayWishes tag online and as credited.

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Who are the offspring of the Wedding of Cana

I bet they’re the happy people.

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#Fiction: “The alternative to outright competitive hiring is [affirmative action] a brokered convention.” #Conventions2016

Y2K: A century of brokers.

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“I feel giddy, light-headed.” “You must have been rooting for the Broncos.”

I feel giddy, light-headed.

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#Lent

The beginning of a Roman Catholic Lent can sometimes feel like a 1-2 punch. It’s Monday, President’s Day, 2016 and I feel lightheaded, giddy, #punchdrunk.

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