Data Doctors Radio Program
Trialware: PC manufacturers dirty little secret!
The competative nature of the computer business has driven PC manufacturers to find new ways to squeeze revenue out of each sale.
A while back, they started installing "trial" software on new computers because they got paid by the software companies to get a place on your Desktop.
Most of the programs were optional and unnecessary applications, but now they have gone to trial versions of critical security programs.
Join us as we expose all of the dirty tricks the PC manufacturers are playing on consumers that they assume are not paying attention!
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Original Air Date: Oct 20, 2007
This Week's Links
- Why are they loading my new PC with so much crap?
- What can I do if I have a new PC full of trialware?
- Junkbusters from PC World
- Walt Mossberg's take on the issue
- It's just Crap-tacular!
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Crapware: Crapware - the practice by PC makers of adding software, setting default search engines and including toolbars on new computers for the purpose of putting money in PC makers' pockets. Some PC makers even go so far as to charge extra to a consumer when ordering a PC with no trial software! - the practice by PC makers of adding software, setting default search engines and including toolbars on new computers for the purpose of putting money in PC makers' pockets. Some PC makers even go so far as to charge extra to a consumer when ordering a PC with no trial software!
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