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Not something I got in Seoul... 
Up until now, there has been pretty much universal agreement that anything which gets installed on your PC without giving notice and asking your permission is unacceptable.
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And I think the reason for that is very simple: most people wouldn't install OC if they knew about it.-40hz (March 31, 2011, 06:25 PM)
did Eset ever answer you?
Photographers nationwide have expressed outrage after thousands of their images vanished from image-sharing website fotopic.net without warning.
Fotopic.net users have not been able to access their pictures for several weeks, sparking fears that the company behind the site has hit financial difficulties and ceased trading.
At first it seemed the problem may be technical - because the site has gone down before - but, as the weeks pass, concerns grow for the future of the site.
we have discussed so many times on this forum the evil of false positives and the laziness of security software in blithely reporting things as threats when they have no idea what they are looking at. one wonders what it's going to take to make antivirus companies get serious about stopping this disgraceful behavior with regard to false positives.-mouser (March 31, 2011, 05:02 AM)
Ok, so now OC is also being bundled in with apps you already paid for?-40hz (March 31, 2011, 02:31 AM)
Do you get paid the same for recommending any of these softwares or does it depend on the advertiser's bid?-PhilB66 (March 31, 2011, 03:20 AM)
I was totally believing those allegations, but now I have doubts. Guess, I'll have to remember to be much more careful about stuff written on the internets.
And yeah, Doco seems to be a much more reliable and trustworthy source of information-housetier (March 31, 2011, 03:58 AM)
Secretly I want samsung to have made this mistake. It would remind people to not blindly trust companies just because they put shiny stickers on a device.
If "THEY" are being secretive they must have a sinister motive.
But given the snaky oiliness of "computer security" products, the false positive still sounds like very possible explanation.-housetier (March 31, 2011, 04:19 AM)
....why would any animal stay in a location it considered stressful.-nudone (March 31, 2011, 03:16 AM)
Superglue
or a nailgun.-4wd (March 31, 2011, 04:35 AM)
Speed for Geeks and Ease for Technotards with Super Simple Photo Resizer
Who needs a trillion features when you can have speed and ease? That's Super Simple's new image resizer for Windows, Photo Resizer. Squarely aimed at non-techno-savvy people, Photo Resizer casts off complexity for ease and speed.
[Disclaimer: I'm also a hypocrite as I don't like cruelty to animals (who would) but I'm more than happy for them to be slaughtered for my dinner plate. I am far to lazy to become vegetarian - and also like the taste of meat.]
Without fully understanding parrot psychology, it looks like the parrot isn't too distressed by the ride (and may be enjoying it):
1) Even if its wings are clipped, it doesn't appear to be stressed when perched on the wiper when the car is stationary. Assuming the parrot can remember the last high speed journey it made, riding the wiper, I'd expect it to jump off the wiper when the car is stationary - why would any animal stay in a location it considered stressful.
2) Anyone seen a dog stick its head out of a speeding car open window? The appear to love doing it. Why shouldn't a parrot be the same, why is there always an automatic assumption that the animal is in distress, the parrot might be absolutely thrilled by the speed.
3) The "expert" woman says that the parrot is clearly in distress because it doesn't move about on the wiper. Well, you wouldn't move about on the wiper when travelling at high speed because you want to keep your shape aerodynamic - the parrot has plenty of opportunity to jump off the wiper when the car is moving slower, and as we see at the end, the parrot gets, accidently, thrown of the wiper. It doesn't make a quick escape, instead it just stands there waiting for another ride.
4) If the parrot really hated the experience, wouldn't it be attacking it's owner to demonstrate how it felt. Instead I see quite a happy parrot with its owner.
5) The guy might not come across as that smart, but he seems to love his parrot. I think he'd realise if the parrot didn't seem happy about the whole thing. I doubt that one day he decided it was a good idea to take his parrot on a 60mph test drive - maybe a slow driver around the block for starters, and then faster runs as they progressed.-nudone (March 31, 2011, 03:16 AM)
That's a news one with the parrot owner talking about it.-Renegade (March 30, 2011, 11:22 PM)
Please note, you are confusing tripe with news - aca, (A Current Affair), has not been associated with real news content for more years than I care, (or can), remember.
News programs in Australia exist on two TV channels only - SBS and ABC.-4wd (March 31, 2011, 12:23 AM)
@Renegade
Is there a list of participating 'Advertisers' somewhere? I could not find one at http://www.opencandy.com/.-PhilB66 (March 30, 2011, 11:07 PM)
I wouldn't doubt that. People tend to doubt their skepticism if they don't know how to verify it.
Often times it's easier to hope on a cure (assuming taking it means little to no cost plus massive gains)
We see this all the time with health drinks, religious atmosphere and even productivity systems. (and hell...web marketing)-Paul Keith (March 30, 2011, 04:07 PM)
Having a good day, yes I am.
Perhaps you should contact Eset, and work it out with them.
Or not, I'm not taking sides, but I will stay with Nod32.-cmpm (March 30, 2011, 04:31 PM)
Well, no offers of other software came up and Photo Resizer installed and works.
Searching for opencandy or OCSetupHlp.dll came up with no results.-cmpm (March 29, 2011, 07:40 PM)
Not for offers of other software. From looking at the agreement, they have the same concept as other advertisers, i.e. impressions and click through. I wasn't saying that it was to get more offers, but to track impressions. Did it say what the request was? That (other than asking) would seem to be the way to figure out what it was trying to do...-wraith808 (March 30, 2011, 08:53 AM)