My friend Donna has some cute little smileys that she uses in her emails. I liked them and when a link for them came at the bottom of one of her emails, I decided to down load them. Yaaagh! Famous last words. I downloaded them okay! Them and a NEW homepage and a NEW tool bar. And STILL couldn’t find how to access the cute little smiley pictures.
Not only that, but this presumptuous webpage wanted me to use THEIR email service and I couldn’t get to my good old google mail! I had to go through the ‘uninstall’ process TWICE to get them gone and then I had a BLANK homepage! THEN I had to reset it for Google.
What ever you do, don’t be tempted to download those cute little Crawley-site smileys! The are very invasive and persistent!
Got my day off to a depressing start. It’s better now though.
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The results of clicking on various things that came up on a web page has curbed my curiosity as much as most anything else in my life. It doesn't matter how enticing something looks to me now, I ignore it. I've been through what you described though perhaps not just exactly the way it happened to you.
ReplyDeleteI suppose the one thing that still catches me from time to time -- in odd places-- are those IQ tests. You take them and then before you get the results you have to sign up for something. I've been suckered by those things more than once -- after enough time has elapsed that I forget I will NOT be getting the results because Iwon't be signing up for ANYTHING.