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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Trojan Hunter? It's Pure Garbage

Recently a reader asked, "Have you ever used Trojan Hunter?" After answering no I decided to take a looksee. Any program that is advertised as a free 30 day trail and then absolutely WON'T let you update is being falsely represented. That's complaint number 1. Complaint number 2 is how can they get away with asking 50 bucks for this trash? Let me just relate the experience instead of numbering the rest of this...

Downloaded and installed it. As usual I turned off all programs including AVG running in the background before installing. It proceeded to do its thing and the computer crashed. No 3 finger salute (Ctrl/Alt/Del), no closing the application, just absolute hard crash. When finally rebooted it decided to take out my Linksys wireless card which has worked perfectly for months. As I rushed to uninstall this garbage (it has no uninstall program, you have to use the control panel) it crashed again. After rebooting and spending some time repairing the network card config, I am now able to write and post this information.

I am considering reporting this company to the proper authorities and HIGHLY discourage anyone from trying to use this junk. Download AVG Anti-Spyware and have a good experience installing protection software that's free. Screw Trojan Hunter. 50 bucks my lardass!

"Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, "You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers."
-Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50

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