You acknowledge those cd that ISPs send you full of “ helpful ” “ support ” software ? The ones that most computer - savvy people snub ? Well , you ’d considerably just keep on ignoring them .
Tools relinquish by SupportSoft and distributed by companies such as Comcast , Time Warner , and Bell South to their customers have turned out to be about as helpful as a Sony - installed rootkit . The software system was designed to admit support staff to remotely get at a client ’s computing machine , but , surprise surprise , it allows fundamentally anyone to remotely access customer ’ figurer . So keep on using those platter as coasters , okay ?
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