I HATE pop-up ads. These things infect your computer, your browser, your mainstay of your computer usage. It’s annoying, it’s irritating, it’s simply just a horrible way to attract a customer. It’s just as bad a business practice as suing people for downloading music. It won’t accomplish anything positive, it makes you look like an ass, and there’s no need for something so drastic to advertise and protect your products.

Well, I want to warn all y’all PC suckers of some bad practices around the Internet. Have you ever downloaded something from download.com? Whether it was winzip, kazaa, or something you think might work just as well, be warned right now that you’re probably downloading more ad and spy software than you think. I know download.com has less control over everything they allow to be downloaded, but hopefully you can be smart enough to know how to avoid this crap.

I downloaded a little program a few minutes ago that would rip Audio CDs to MP3s. It looked like a nice program to use and simple and quick. Well, upon downloading and installation, I caught that it was also attaching some “money saving” spyware, bonzai buddy, gator, and other imfamously TRASHY and ANNOYING software. Well, now I have these pop up ads on this computer every now and then. I use software like adaware and spybot to try to destroy this junk. If you don’t run one or both of these, do it now! You have absolutely nothing to lose and uninterrupted Internet browsing to gain. In fact, I’ll be in Houston and if anyone wants computer help (for some kind of compensation), let me know and I’ll be happy to help!

Be careful of what you download. If you are not sure, ASK! Ask anyone who has a clue, like me!