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Here is one for your virus: SOFTWARE UPGRADE
> NOTICE:
> Last year a friend of mine upgraded GirlFriend 6.0 to Wife 1.0 and
found
> that it's a memory hog leaving very little system resources for other
> applications.
> He is only now noticing that Wife 1.0 also is spawning
Child-Processes
> which are further consuming valuable resources.
> No mention of this particular phenomenon was included in the product
> brochure or the documentation, though other users have informed him
that
this
> is to
> be expected, due to the nature of the application.
>
> Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself such that it is always
launched
at
> system initialization where it can monitor all other system activity.
> He's finding that some applications such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash
2.5,
> and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run, crashing the system when
selected
> (even though they always worked fine before). At installation, Wife
1.0
> automatically installs undesired Plug-Ins such as MotherInLaw 55.8
and
> BrotherInLaw Beta release. As a consequence system performance seems
to
> diminish with each passing day.
>
> Some features he'd like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0:
>
> A "Don't remind me again" button;
> A Minimize button;
> An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be installed with
the
> option to uninstall at anytime without the loss of cache and other
system
> resources;
> An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode which would
allow
> the systems hardware probe feature to have greater use.
>
> Another friend decided to avoid all the headaches associated with
Wife
1.0
> by sticking with Girlfriend 2.0. Even here, however, I found many
problems.
> Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 2.0 on top of Girlfriend
1.0.
You
> must uninstall Girlfriend 1.0 first. Other users say this is a long
> standing bug which everyone should have been aware. Apparently the
versions of
> Girlfriend have conflicts over shared use of the I/O port. You'd
think
> they would have fixed such a stupid bug by now.
> To make matters worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend 1.0
doesn't
> work very well leaving undesirable traces of the application in the
system.
> Another annoying problem -- all versions of Girlfriend continually
pop-up
> annoying messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0
>
>
> ***** BUG WARNING *****
> Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.1
> before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files
before
> executing
> a self - uninstallation. Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install,
claiming
> insufficient system resources.
>
>
> ***** BUG WORK-AROUNDS *****
> To avoid the above bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different
system
> and never run any file transfer applications such as Laplink 6.0.
Also,
beware
> of similar share-ware applications that have been known to carry
viruses
that
> may affect Wife 1.0.
>
> Another solution would be to run Mistress 1.0 via a UseNet provider
under
> an anonymous name. Here again, beware of the viruses which can
accidentally
> be downloaded from the UseNet.
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