Virus writers?

[font=Verdana]I wish they would redefine what they call a virus.[/font]
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[font=Verdana][/font][font=Verdana]There are so many programs/viruses these days.[/font]
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[font=Verdana][/font][font=Verdana]They take over your home page.[/font]
[font=Verdana][/font][font=Verdana]They change settings on your computer.[/font]
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[font=Verdana][/font][font=Verdana]We have so many programs that hijack our computer yet no one does anything about it.[/font]
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[font=Verdana][/font][font=Verdana]Some viruses are rather harmless, people don’t even though they have them or that they have passed them on.[/font]
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[font=Verdana][/font][font=Verdana]Yet when a program hijacks their home page, or redirects their search results people waste money having professionals remove it for them, waste money on programs to remove them, waste their time looking into what it is that has hijacked their computer.[/font]
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[font=Verdana][/font][font=Verdana]I think these hijacking programs are a bigger pain in the arse than most viruses and more computers are infected with them, yet we don’t see them on tv, we don’t see rewards offered for the writers arrest…[/font]
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[font=Verdana][/font][font=Verdana]I though it was illegal to modify data on someone else’s computer without their permission. So when these programs sneak on without requesting to be installed, and they modify your settings.[/font]
[font=Verdana]Just because they may not spread themselves from your computer to others, I still see them as a dirty infection and a virus.[/font]
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[font=Verdana][/font][font=Verdana]I wish the writers would be jailed for life……[/font]
[font=Verdana][/font][font=Verdana]or hanged, given a lethal injection, the electric chair, gas chamber, firing squad………… What ever…. Really I am not fussed… :D[/font]