So I was going through my Add/Remove programs tonight, and I found this thing called "My Way Search Assistant" in the list, but it had no remove button, it was just shown there with no buttons to operate on it.
Obviously, I knew right away it was some sort of crapware. Crapware I shouldnt have, that is. I run Hijackthis, AdAware Pro and Norton. All of them are up to date and after running a scan of all three and manually updating the defs of each just to be sure, it was still telling me I had a clean system.
What the fuck?
So, I started doing some searching around, and came across
this little tidbit. Apparently, this is something that Dell installs on all of thier new computers, and it is indeed Spyware of some sort. I didnt delve into the details of exactly what it sends because I didnt care, I didnt want it no matter what it was sending.
I tried all of the stuff in that thread, still couldnt get rid of the damn thing. So I went back to google, next result was the same so
I decided to try that, so I what it said and it did remove this pesky little piece of shit.
I am really surprised Dell themselves is doing this bullshit. They honestly deserve to be sued for it. This is reason 1,986,435,265,985 of why I'll never buy another Dell as long as I live.
So how many of you have this thing running, apparently it hides from alot of the crapware scanners.