At the barbershop, I sat down to the house computer and found it unusable, crammed with spyware/adware with no obvious way to run a program to clean it. After speding an hour with the machine and realizing it would take another few before it was clean, I began to ask questions about how it became this way. Well, it turns out that this is the second machine in a year that has met this fate. The first was abandoned. The proprietors had no idea why this had happened, and they found it hard to believe that the main culprit was that big blue “E” that they call the “Internet button.”
The situation is pathetic and tragic, leading many people to believe that they have wasted money on their computer or feeling utterly incompetent to manage modern technology. Many programs are available to combat this—and Firefox should be used as much as possible—but people need to be told about them and none have thus far been integral to the operation of the average computer. (The Callahan Rule that progress is better than perfection explains why these problems exist in the first place.)
The release of Microsoft’s AntiSpyware in Beta represents a major step toward resolving this terrible mess. I just used it. It’s great. Thanks to RationalMind.net, who reports that this program easily outperforms every competitor. By the way, if you see a program recommended or a computer tip offered on RationalMind.Net, take it seriously.
