Anybody Know That WinCustomize Gets a Warning on Site Advisor?
Thursday, September 28, 2006 by joetheblow | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I installed McAfee (gasp) about 3 weeks ago. No problems except the apparently normal memory hog usage and accational CPU blip (a blip I can expect to happen once or twice a week lasting as long as 2 hours at 80-100CPU cycles) and it has this Internet Exporer helper object called Site Advisor.
So I come to WinCustomize on IE (of which is very rare) and I come across this yellow alert: In our test, some downloads on this site tried to change some of our system settings.
Now I sort of feel like this: Its a skinning and customization site... of COURSE it changes default settings in some areas.
I wonder if I should take this as a way of warning the 'normal' computer user that downloading stuff from this site can change stuff (just in case they didn't know or wasn't aware of what kind of site this is) or should I take this as some sort of bad warning that doesn't really mean anything when it comes to this site?
Reply #2 Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:04 PM
Might as well put Norton on it too and then just use the computer as a very large paperweight..
Reply #3 Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:30 PM
| You should take it as "Why the heck did I install McAfee?" Might as well put Norton on it too and then just use the computer as a very large paperweight.. |
boss got it in one.
Since SD proggies are INTENDED to alter system 'settings' the site [Wincustomize] [and one would assume Stardock.com] will be flagged as such.
Pretty-well stating the obvious....
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Reply #1 Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:35 PM