It’s a funny thing. Hunter’s probably one of the best writers that we’ll ever get, but I didn’t care about that. The Rolling Stones are probably the best best rock & roll singers left, but they’re total fucking jerks in my world. I met them at Altamont. I didn’t like them before they came out, I didn’t like what they did when they came out, and I didn’t like what they said about us afterwards. I don’t think that people realize that just because you’re really good at something, it doesn’t make you a good person.
Sonny Barger, talking about Hunter S. Thompson, in Gonzo.
I devised a method to prevent Spyware (and Webshots) from loading, using the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit Shim Application Database (sdbinst.db)
It worked well:
most people didn’t ring IT Security.
Why block Webshots? There were two reasons:
- it would cause Windows to crash and/or Blue Screen
- bandwidth. it gobbled bandwidth.
1. is obvious, but for 2., here were the figures I wrote up in 2004:
The average Webshots image is 120k. Times this by x known users (lets say 500). Equals 60000k (58 megabytes).
Every day. On a weekly basis, 300MB.
Back then, 300MB for a particular customer, was a BIG ISSUE.
Some of the other applications we blocked:
Bittorrent, Bonzi Buddy, Cashback, CloneDVD, Conscorr, Ethereal, Gator, GoZilla, Hot Tarts Dialler, Kazaa, MyWebSearch, nMap, Trillian, VirtuaGirl & Webshots.
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