What is the most intrusive piece of software you've ever installed?

[nagger]

Intrusive pieces of software I've installed in the past:

Real Player
KaZaA
MSN Messenger
Windows Media Player
Windows Millenium Edition
Windows XP Home Edition

 

[ChefJoe]

Realplayer.. morpheus. Hrm... what was that thing from way back in the old days with a big text list of mp3s... what morpheous was before the gui? I knew a few people who got hit by that (it did ftp logins to get mp3s)

 

[cosmic1]

Real Player, AIM

 

[hoihtah]

gator

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
most of you are too young to remember after dark and adobe font manager.

I remember Afterdark. At least the MAC version.

My least favorites:

Norton AV
McAfee Tools (I just want the freakin' defragger, but I ended up with all sorts of sh1t even after I unchecked them in the install)
RealPlayer


amish

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Another nomination for Real Player, which I just refuse to use for sticking icons and ads everywhere. I'll bookmark your site myself, thanks.

AOL Instant Messenger is almost as bad.

Sierra On-Line games, both for their adamant refusal to install anywhere except in a Sierra folder, and for repeatedly installing their useless Sierra utilities both on the hard drive and into the Start Menu.

 

[wfbberzerker]

windows 98