via the unique cartoon-stylings of Daniel Stori at turnoff.us — via the unique cartoon-stylings of **Daniel Stori** at **turnoff.us**

Daniel Stori's 'Skype For Linux' →

May 31, 2020 by Marc Handelman in Daniel Stori, Sarcasm, Satire, Crapware

Ad-Network Concealing Monero Mining Software In.... Ads! →

March 01, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Crime, Criminal Enterprise, Crapware

Whew... I thought it was late-stage Meltdown on my Intel i7 Mac evidenced by the recent reoccurring & frenzied beach-ball-from-hell... Now, I know it's concealed Coinhive mining crapware scarfin' all the cycles - thereby making all my base belong to them...

SourceForge, Litany of Bundled Crapware →

June 01, 2015 by Marc Handelman in Application Security, Crapware, Adware, Information Security

Evidence is mounting, of a move by SourceForge to bundle ad and crapware into it's packaged software downloads. A sign that the end is near...

MAC OS X Crapware Ariseth

March 27, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Information Security, Malware, Crapware

via How To Geek's reporter Lowell Heddings, comes this warning shot, fired over the bow, detailing the rise of the newly discovered Apple Inc. (NasdaqGS: AAPL) MAC OS X 'crapware' epidemic.

"The problem gets much, much worse when you try to search for freeware using your favorite search engine. It’s worth noting here that Google has just recently starting trying to ban bundled crapware from their results and ads, but sadly Yahoo and Bing don’t have the same level of awesome. In fact, they are just terrible." - via How To Geek's Lowell Heddings

Crapware Redux, 𝝻Torrent Fail

March 10, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Application Security, Blatant Stupidity, Information Security, Crapware

Evidence of another crapware installation routine built-in to formerly trusted software has been revealed. This time it's 𝝻Torrents' bundling of EpicScale (a cryptocurrency auto-miner and all-around cycle-hog). Here's how to relieve yourself of these pathetic bits.