My mistake along these lines was the "weatherbug" software touted by a 
local TV station, which sits on your task bar and chirps when there is a 
weather bulletin, and lets you bring up any forecast you want. It also 
installs "gator," which manages lots of pop-up ads and tracks web activity.

Kazaa music download software has made computers virtually unusable 
for three of my clients. 

Bill

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:31:42 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Thanks to EVERYONE for the talk so far.  I will be forwarding the relevant 
clips to my
>client.  Especially the ones about downloading screen saver programs.  
Everytime I went
>there she was showing off the latest screen saver she had downloaded!  
Parrots, ocean tides,
>anything to make her think she was on vacation!  Well -- welcome home!!

>She was also excited that she had downloaded an executable that 
showed the date in the
>taskbar.  I thought that the text displayed looked real cheesy and 
unprofessional.  Bet that
>was a problem to, you think?

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