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Re: GoHip Please read

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From: Nick FitzGerald
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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From: "Nick FitzGerald" <nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GoHip Please read
Date: 2000/02/21
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