Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=142185&name=PUA:Win32/Perion&threatid=226948

The description reminded me that the customer I had who swore by it the most constantly brought their PC to me for spyware clean-up. It jogged my memory because I haven't seen or heard from them in 13 years.

But the completely unrelated tech support patient in my care still had copies of the installer in their Downloads directory.

#Windows Defender in #Windows11 now detects IncrediMail's installer packages as a potentially unwanted application (PUA). Microsoft calls it PUA:Win32/Perion.

This is short-term mixed but ultimately very good news, because IncrediMail, a program from the #WinXP days, traps user mail in a proprietary format defying exportability even today, and it uses cutesy features as the bait for that trap.

Oh, how I forgot how easily people are tricked into installing driver updater & cleaner snake oils on their PCs.

@DarkWitchClaire Any new platform I join, I *have* to spend up to an hour exploring notifications, turning them all off, and then turning back on only the tiny few that are actually useful. The modern Web sucks.

The 50th anniversary of my own release into an unsuspecting world is only six days away.

#OTD 50 years ago, Intel released the first commercially available microprocessor, the 4004. For the first time, a computer's entire CPU could be in a single IC package. It had all the computing power of a handheld calculator, but that too was revolutionary at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004

DRM has yet again punished paying customers instead of pirates.
"Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires": https://torrentfreak.com/denuvo-protected-games-rendered-unplayable-after-domain-expires-211108/

Today in "civil asset forfeiture is a hell of a drug" and "cops rob more than robbers":
Institute For Justice Survey Shows How Philadelphia's Forfeiture Program Preyed On Poor Minorities
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211031/17423147856/institute-justice-survey-shows-how-philadelphias-forfeiture-program-preyed-poor-minorities.shtml

For 26 years, from August 1995 through October 2021, the #Windows taskbar could be on any screen edge you wanted. No more. With #Win11, the taskbar is on the bottom and that's that.

A YouTube video on the Russian Revolution: "Lenin went to Europe, where he hung out with other Marxists and talk about how great--" *commercial for some overpriced, fatty, greasy food*

And finally for this thread, I promise: How does Windows 11 shut down?

It still turns off the screen several seconds before turning off the power, but it's only about 1/3 the time of Windows 10 before it actually turns off for real.

The most refreshing thing so far, no pun intended: The leaflet's instructions for the user guide worked! It opened Edge, asked me in a Web page to pick the right-language user guide, and opened a 65-page PDF. Both the Web page and the PDF are file URLs: they were already there, not downloaded!

Microsoft, just what--

"Get Started" -> "This app can't open - A problem with Windows is preventing Get Started from opening. Refreshing your PC might fix it. [Refresh]" - [Copy to clipboard] [Close]

Oops! An addendum! What about the documentation the instruction leaflet told me about?

Neither Tips nor Get Help were featured in the Start menu. Tips is there, but it's on the second page of apps, and there's a "Get Started" menu choice just below the apps.

And at last, I'm at the Windows 11 desktop. Microsoft probably loaded crapware apps on it, but the OEM loaded some McAfee crapware.

Decrapifying is a different adventure. This adventure, the most surreal computer out of box experience I have yet endured, is over.

Now I'm at a screen hocking OneDrive. The overall thing doesn't seem like a dark pattern, given its legit usefulness potential, but its choices sure do. The default is a "Next" button, but the links are "Privacy" and the confusingly worded "Only save files to this PC."

After entering the correct password, it's gone back to recommending I set up Windows Hello. If I hit "Skip for now," it demands I create a PIN, again with no alternative whatsoever.