It still does not help the user
to tell them to go f-off. That is the point I've been trying to make.
Spyware is a serious issue, Dell made a business decision to not support the removal of it. I hope they can live with that if it ends up losing them business in the future.
Well to people like me it presents an opportunity to clean up said computers infected with Spyware when the OEM won't even touch it. For just $35USD for one hour's worth of work, I could clean off the Spyware and uninstall the programs that depend on it, and fix whatever damage the removal of said Spyware causes. Then tell the customer not to install programs that use Spyware, or else I'll be back charging them another $35USD to remove it from their systems. Back when I had a tech support business, before Spyware was so rampant, it was hard to get tech support issues unless DLL Hell, or overinstalling programs caused Windows to barf on itself.
Once I graduate with that business management degree, I may start up another small company to do tech support and programming functions. Dell won't support the removal of spyware, but we will, for a price. Well worth it to get a P4 to stop acting like a 286 because over 500+ spyware apps are installed.
Dell's loss is my gain. If any company sues me over it, I'll countersue them for making software that potentially causes damage and degrades system performance on a system and captures keystrokes, etc. I am sure that I can get spyware seen as a virus by some smart lawyers, esp the ones that capture keystrokes and passwords. They will then have to deal with some negative PR when I make the whole case public and report it to the media.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"