DivX Now Installs Malware

Re:DivX Now Installs Malware by lawnchair_larry on Thursday September 19, 2013 @05:09AM (#6410623)

The prospect of making money does strange things to people's perception. PG knows damn well that is garbage that provides no value (rather, negative value) to the user and just pollutes society's computers. There is no way he would defend it under normal circumstances. Who would? Good job YC, you're the new Bonzi Buddy, the PC cancer. I can't wait to clean that shit out of my elderly relatives computers when they complain of sluggishness, crashes, and intrusive ads, like the good old days.

"The users choose to install these things."

GMAB, you know better.

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Re:DivX Now Installs Malware by Uchikoma on Thursday September 19, 2013 @07:07AM (#6410908)

I have a very high opinion of PG

But he's not objective if topics touch Y-combinator startups¹, the same happened during the AirBnb PR disaster.

¹ and when he talks about programming languages ;)

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Re:DivX Now Installs Malware by auggierose on Thursday September 19, 2013 @08:16AM (#6411118)

Nobody thinks bad things of his/her own children. That includes both startup children and programming language children :-)

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Re:DivX Now Installs Malware by lawnchair_larry on Friday September 20, 2013 @04:30PM (#6420318)

I do as well, which is why that one bothers me. If it was some random slimeball spammer, I don't think I'd care.

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Re:DivX Now Installs Malware by derefr on Thursday September 19, 2013 @01:20PM (#6412932)

If I recall, the things that InstallMonetizer installs are less of the "persistent memory-resident toolbar-like crap" variety, and more of the "hey, would you like us to install VLC while you're here? Maybe Firefox? Google Earth?" type. Those aren't quite as bothersome (though they still are a nonzero amount of bothersome), because they don't do anything unless you choose to launch the program.

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