Sam MacDonald writes: > Speaking of "crapware" I went looking for software to convert > fractions to decimals yesterday. A fraction is division. To convert 5/4 you would divide five by four, getting 1.25. Windows comes with a calculator. On UNIX you have bc, or my favorite, the interactive Python interpreter (simply run "python"). > I found and evil POS (Piece Of $h!t) that really had me hot at... > http://www.icontoday.com/download/ProgramList.cfm?Id=5&CatId=45 > Called "Math Homework Maker" the link went to this place > http://math.official.ws/math.exe > It carried a payload of a time sync application that did not ask to be > installed. Evil twice because when I uninstalled it, My browser > opened and they asked why I was uninstalling the software. The software installer clearly indicates that it is going to install companion software, both on the initial screen and in the license agreement. There is evil spyware out there, but this certainly isn't an example of it. http://david.maridia.com/tmp/math_homework_maker.png You can't blame the installer because you didn't read what it said it was going to install. -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list
