it's not going to happen, for a company to ask you before it makes every change to your computer, it has to have a huge gui, and is more prone to errors--It can work without you knowing it, and doesn't have to wait for you to return to the keyboard to show you every change that gets made to the registry.
----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas Hruska To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:46 AM Subject: Re: [c-prog] virus Paul Herring wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Thomas Hruska <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] >> Plus, using VerifyMyPC, I've had the joy of watching my product catch >> both Microsoft AND Google with their pants down updating my computer >> WITHOUT my explicit permission. > > I'm sure there are clauses in their EULA's whereby you have given such > permission. EULA, pff. It is called _trust_. To gain (and keep) my trust, apps. need to tell me _exactly_ what is happening to my computer at all times and offer me an option to NOT do something when it affects files and registry entries on my system. Thus, I haven't trusted a company since the DOS days. It was simple in DOS - if you installed outside of the directory the user told you to, you were considered a virus unless you described EXACTLY to the user what you were going to modify and WHY. When Windows came along, all that went out the window - and so did my trust. Uninstalling under DOS was typically very easy - just delete the directory. *NIX, in some ways, is worse than Windows apps. since files can end up in different directories depending on the distro. Both Microsoft and Google have violated the simple rule of "at least tell us when you update". I'd be upset that I didn't get to choose when the update ran, but it is better than telling me nothing. Google is supposedly all about "do no evil", yet they pull this stunt regularly (more often than Microsoft). IMO, VerifyMyPC has rightly labeled the secret/silent Microsoft/Google updates as malware in all cases. With VerifyMyPC, I get to at least monitor and track apps. making critical modifications behind my back. When they do, the company gets caught. Legality (EULAs) has _nothing_ to do with this. I want a say in updates. ALL updates. -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
