I have a malfunctioning vacuum motor, for the rear air conditioning on my big 1 ton van. I went hunting for it on the internet, and found a nice set of PDF's showing the vacuum diagrams. Downloaded it. NO NO NO it is an .EXE file, that wants to manage my PDF's for me. I totally feel betrayed when an internet site, pretends to have one thing, and it is really something else.
I don't want any additional garbage in this computer. spyware. Malware. Who cares? Don't pretend that it is a PDF, when it is something else.
N
working with vacuum sucks.
I have had the same problem lately.
I could do without this internet if I had to, unlike some folk. The internet services should furnish free blood pressure pills with subscription.
John Harmon
If it helps any, I can be mad with you. Have fallen for those tricks too.
You may already know this, but what I do now is place the mouse over the download button an watch the bottom of my browser. It shows you where/what you are getting. If it has .exe I stay away.
Don’t know about you, but I’m forever downloading all kinds of junk. Used to be in the habit of just pressing any button that said “DOWNLOAD” without closely examining where the button is located and the fine print hidden cleverly somewhere on another page. After years of trying to fix registry’s eliminate spybots, etc. I realized it may be prudent to set up an old laptop for my “downloading” from questionable sites. (torrents, hacker sites etc.) That way if something gets screwed up, which always happens to me, I just hit the “restore to an earlier date” button and viola!
Have a great week!B-)
