crap its spyware, the pic on that wikipedia page makes it look even better
lmao i wish there was a spware free one i would so have it by now!
it mentions about trend micro, i guess my computer wouldnt even let me download it, lol, i have trend micro pc cillin internet security. lol he looks so innocent! although lol@the company! haha $75,000

Imagine an old couple using this computer.

"Dear, fetch my magnifying glass, I need to use the internet."

TERRIBLE...
And of course, that machine runs Windows (XP: eXtreme Pain).

INTERESTING
I noticed that the image have 800x600px, is a visual trick to increase the awesome effect!!!

JOKING
I really doubt that Bill Gates uses any Microsoft product. Like a doctor said: "I will never permit any doctor to touch me, they are killers!!, I'm a doctor". Is hard to live in the hell and be the evil: only he knows why!!!

Blessings!!

OMG JAY LMAO!

develcuy, windows xp isnt that bad is it?

Damn that is alot of spyware! Seriously though it looks like that pc has been used for testing only in an extreme controlled environment. Glad mine doesn't look like that hehe. You can just imagine all the lag and memory loss errors that that machine will have, imagine the startup of internet explorer, hell even the startup of the whole machine.

If anyone's computer does look like this, it gives them a good indication of how badly their computer is comprimised. Data and private and personal information can be stolen by the second - even to the point they are basically 'stealing' your internet connection.
Just some tips if a rare user comes across their desktop being somewhat similar to this - If there is simply too much simply put you're going to have to reformat. It should and will solve everything except data loss.
Secondly if the spyware you have is managable, i recommend (even if you don't have spyware, it is good protection) antispyware applications such as adaware. Some antivirus suites include this protection by default but it's best to check.
Lastly if you know you are infected limit your internet usage for personal and private things like banking and shopping online etc

Hope it helps anyone that needs it
-HellFire

wow, that computer is probably running on snail speed...

Well, some of it is Windows problems, but the majority is just user stupidity. Your house might have a faulty lock on a window, and a burglar gets in through there. It happens. But if you've left the front door open all night, you can expect to have a lot more unwanted guests. A couple years back I was sent this computer to repair, and it wouldn't even boot up, it was so full of stuff. When i finally piggybacked it onto another system and ran NOD32 on it, seriously, there were over 14,000 viruses, malware, spyware, adware and what have you. The guy had no firewall or antivirus on his system, and he had been running it for about a year and a half. There you have a classic case of user stupidity.

I used to have bonzi buddy on my pc... is that really spyware? He's a funny monkey that sings and dances.

I have to to say that is one messed up computer regardless if someone got bored, due to the fact that the RAM must get eaten up just within a few minutes of that browser being started. Although I used most of the services that browser is displaying I never bothered installing those plug in, especially when the spyware and adware were trying to installing those stupid things. As other people mentioned that it was done on purpose just to see what it would look like after having all that junked installed onto someone's computer.



I would agree spyware would be a threat to your computer life, just not your real life, although I somewhat remember that purple monkey think I installed it back in the Win 98/Win ME days I soon un-installed as to why I did install can't remember. but I am glad I did. I would also agree back in the dark ages of computers, 1990s of course . everyone was somewhat stupid in the computer technology, don't claim you knew what you were when you were installing something you though was cool, but in fact was a lethal in its own little way.

That must be a annoying machine, popups/ads. I wonder how much CPU/memory/virtual page file resources that went in to running all of those. If I did that, I would say "Don't try this at any computer unless you want be hacked"

xxxx-jozh-xxxx