Jake Anderson wrote...

>were any of the things you found called "cool web search"?

Over the last week I've had several of these "web search" things
try to install themselves; one succeeded, and I had to rip it
out.

>... scumware ...

That is an EXCELLENT term...

>kazzaa is shipped with a slew of scumware (use kazzaa lite if you must)
>icq is adware
>gator is scumware

I don't use any of these things; frankly, the only things I ever
do over the Internet are email and reading my daily newspapers
and weblogs on the WWW.  I'd be perfectly happy with a web
browser that can't do anything other than display text and still
graphics; all the other "features" in modern bloatware like IE6
are of no interest.  Music, games, animation, it's all useless
crap as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks for the heads-up about Opera being adware; if I use it,
I'll pay for the ads-free version.

Dave D.

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