[Snugglebug]

A friend had been playing this band *Matchbox 20* in his cd player and asked to play it on my computer. Instead of bringing up Quentensial player which is my default player, a message appeared with only option OK to download software....No name, no option to cancel and no clue what the software was. I closed the window and removed the cd. This took all of less than a minute.
Always being careful, I checked my hardrive. Netscape Navigator was in my add/remove as well as numerous files assoiated with it in my registary files. Using Jv16, adaware, spybot and search I was able to clean my computer...it took over an hr.

Now to me that was scary...how insidious and quickly a program had installed itself on my machine and through what should have been a simple music CD.

It burns me that these companys can force their product on you. When a pushy salesman annnoys me in a store I can leave, A door to door salsemans gets a closed door. Sales flyers etc go in the garbage. And the persisatant phone saleseperson only hears a click as I hang up the phone. And a tv channel is changed. Like everyone I pay to be online and choose where and what I want to see.

Just beware! !

[hewee]

You have auto play turned on?

I keep auto play off on my PC.
But last week someone was here that had some DVD movies and I right click the DVD drive and AutoPlay was there so I clicked it. The first thing that came up was a install window wanting to install a DVD player. Same player the other person was using on his notebook. I said no and checked things out and all was ok and no just was installed. But still why was a install window there to install something first. Like you would not be able to even see the movie without a DVD player so if you have a player you also have software to see the movie that came with your DVD or PC.
I have the ASUS motherboard and it came with a great DVD player. Never even looked at the software that came with the DVD to see if it had a player or not but I bet Sony had something on the CD.

[It Wasn't me]

Thanks Snugglebug for posting that. It's bad enough software that we buy installs garbage we don't know about or want and some new computers come with all kinds of garbage spyware we don't ask for now you say Music CDs install this stuff. This is a good way for the RIAA to carry on with the warm and cuddly approach of the Sue um all attitude and stop the sleezy gutter scrapping low lifes that download files off the internet. What do they say at the their meetings? Hey lets load their computers with scumware garbage on new CDs and Sue the rest that will teach them all!