I remember reading a book a few years back on DOS memory management. The first paragraph started something like this: "The DOS system of memory management is the most tortuous, ill-conceived crock of total kludgery known to man." Where are we now?
I can't speak for against the programs mentioned here but I will say that it's a scarey world on the Windoze environment. I'm not an avid mac or xnix user so don't I'm not looking for any religious wars over the 'best' platform.
That said, there is just as much need for such cleaner programs as there is reason to fear them. Free (or cheap) software often comes with added turds that hang around on disk, in the registry and running in the background. I usually search for evidence of widespread usage w/o bad reviews or incidents before I adopt them.
Even big companies can't always be trusted. Look at the debacle Sony caused with the spyware they secretly embedded in their mp3 player app. There was never a complete remediation of victims PCs.
I rarely use Internet Explorer since I caught MS a few years ago with their fingers in my cookie jar (unintended pun
). I caught IE perodically rifling through all my bookmarks and sending them to an IP address registered to MS. Why?
The Army puts peoples' SSNs into links (URL query strings) on their portal. Everyone who uses those links send their SSN in-the-clear to the world.
Companies have been brought to their knees by a recent virus/denial-of-service attack against the Windoze platform because the Symantec corporate anti-virus software left the f'ing door open. I'm involved in a HUGE cleanup operation related to this right now.
I understand Vista is the same way. See the difference. YMMV.
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