[AT] Off Topic- You Tube

[Ron Cook]

No.  I don't allow applications to put any tool bars and such. Unless it 
inadvertently happened.  I wouldn't rule that out. Seriously, I never 
had a bit of problem with much of anything until my daughter came home 
for a visit a couple years ago and logged onto facebook with that 
computer.  Plagued ever since.  And, she gets political and advertising 
emails that are, if not containing my name in the greeting, are at least 
something I would look at or buy from and very obviously not anything 
she would be interested in.  That part I consider funny.  She did live 
in Chicago and now lives in San Francisco.  A forty year old liberal.  I 
am near Sioux City, Iowa, still very conservative and getting older by 
the day.  Our computer uses are very opposite.
The computer on my desk in the basement that I keep my business affairs 
on, she did not use.  It has no problems.  It is pretty slow, though, so 
it does not get used for you-tube and such.  Maybe that is a plus.  When 
that Google was the everything everyone ever wanted, I used to use it as 
a search engine.  Google infiltrated that machine too.  And it is still 
in there some.  I tried getting it all out but never did completely.  
Really ticks me off.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA
On 3/9/2013 4:11 PM, Ken Knierim wrote:
> When you install the flash player, does it ask to put in a toolbar? If
> you're allowing that, it could be your problem. LOTS of spyware attached to
> those "optional" features. Rip them out, with a claw hammer, if necessary.
> Then turn off everything in the flash setup page that wants to talk to your
> camera and microphone too. :)
>
> I find that the parts that aren't there rarely break. adblock plus is your
> friend too.
>
> Ken in AZ
>