Posted by Ed:
Today I was minding my own business at work and my computer pops up an unfamiliar message box at the lower right part of my screen (See picture below.) Some weird program called Viewpoint said that it had been updated. It then told me to hit the update button. And by the way, in fine print below is a little blurb that says “By clicking Update you are agreeing to the End User License Agreement.” 
This is a problem because the agreement had some nasty things that I did not want including a browser plugin that would take up space, memory, and who knows what else it would be doing when it phones home to it’s mother ship. I despise these types of applications invading my computing experience.
After seeing this tricky application on my desktop, I did not press the X at the top right corner because they rarely close the application without doing something dasterdly. Instead I had to open the task manager and kill the process. I then went into “Add-Remove programs” and uninstalled the Viewpoint viewer and media player. I don’t know where I got this thing, but I sure know I don’t want it.
Leonards blog this week talks about this very thing. Check it out at http://sec-soapbox.blogspot.com/2007/05/drive-by-what.html
