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Article #381Re: GoHip Please read
From: Nick FitzGerald
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:00
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SmokinJoe <smoknjoe@hotmail.com> wrote: <<snip>> > As of 2/20/00 deja.com shows 171 posts to newsgroups regarding GoHip, not > one of these posts were positive. If the administrators of this site think > they are making friends I would say they are severely disillusioned. 8-) > They are well aware that not everyone reads License Agreements, in fact they > depend on it. Indeed. Several antivirus sites have pages up about this, presumably because of many tech-support calls... > ... IMHO this program does nothing to enhance your browser's > video as the name would imply. It is nothing but a self-serving ploy to > increase the traffic to the GoHip website. I urge anyone reading this to It does not install any software to your machine at all, *apart from* a copy of the installer which is set to run at each startup so as to ensure that you have not disabled the "advertising". > avoid their website and downloading their software. I have removed their > software from my machine and changed the signature line added to my correspo > ndence as you see below. > ----------------------------------------------------- > DO NOT!!!!!!! Click here for Free Video!! > http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/ I doubt that will help, but those of you in the US may find complaining to the BBB useful. -- Nick FitzGerald
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f569d,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gidf569d,public X-Google-Thread: fcd68,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcd68,public X-Google-Thread: f77fd,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gidf77fd,public X-Google-Thread: 1131fc,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gid1131fc,public X-Google-Thread: 1070cf,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gid1070cf,public X-Google-Thread: f7623,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7623,public X-Google-Thread: 110c12,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gid110c12,public X-Google-Thread: 103552,13096da9c231b301 X-Google-Attributes: gid103552,public From: "Nick FitzGerald" <nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: GoHip Please read Date: 2000/02/21 Message-ID: <01bf7bff$359fb840$0500000a@mobilenick> X-Deja-AN: 587727197 References: <HfUr4.5201$tw.130815@nnrp1.ptd.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@clear.net.nz X-Trace: news.clear.net.nz 951091694 203.167.204.216 (Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:08:14 NZDT) Organization: Personal account NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:08:14 NZDT Newsgroups: alt.comp.virus,alt.netscape.buggy-products,alt.online-service.microsoft,alt.windows98,canb.general,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc,comp.multimedia,microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.browser