and I thought Dell only sold PC's

HannibalHannibal
edited August 2003 in Science & Tech
A few months ago my computer went down for a few days, so I logged onto my sister's Dell (2ghz P4, 80gb, 512DDR, better then mine at the time) and noticed about four(!) toolbars installed in IE, wondering how much damn spyware was on there, I downloaded Ad-Aware and ran a quick scan, found about 400-500(!?!) new objects, Ad-aware crashed trying to remove all of them, time went by and never got around to uninstalling it all. My main rig got back up and I left it alone.

After some quirky problems out of my control, my rig went down last night(currently waiting for an RMA from Epox, fyi) so I install the KR7A I picked up from Leonardo a few weeks ago. I try a reinstall of windows only to find out the CD is scratched somehow, keep getting error after about 5mintues. Looking around I see my sister's copy of XP she got from Dell, I quickly install it, get into windows and notice 2 toolbars already installed, (from opening IE for the very first time), install some drivers etc..and finally download Ad-aware again. And this is what I found..

Why is Dell doing this? Can they be making that much money off of it? 90% of the files are reg entries from Cometcursor and bargainbunny, along with 3-4 .exe's and .dlll's to go along. Just thought it was quite interesting Dell would be doing this

Comments

  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited August 2003
    First thing I do after I get ANY prebuild PC (and I only have had 1): Format.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    Hannibal said

    Why is Dell doing this? Can they be making that much money off of it?

    How many PCs do they sell in a single DAY?

    I would say, HELL YES they can be making that much money off of it.
    :hrm:
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    They would definitely make money off it.

    They have a lucrative market when you consider so many DELL's end up in the hands of the technically inexperienced.
  • SlickSlick Upstate New York
    edited August 2003
    I own a dell, (and I am not techincally inexperienced) because I went to the store and was like w00t dell is so l337, im gonna get one, like everyone else around here is? No. I actaully got it as a gift, and I don't have any money to drop on building a new PC, and really when you think about it, it is sufficent for what I use it for.

    BTW, back on subject, I have reinstalled windows in this PC many a time, cause I am always fooling around with linux and stuff, and I have never had any problem with the massive ammounts of spyware that you have. Maybe like 4 or 5 after a format, and they were all registry keys.
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