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Google is the new AntiChrist

Mike Williams

8/27/2010 9:13:00 PM


Come back Micro$oft. All is forgiven (well, some of it is!). Google is the
new AntiChrist :-)

Whilst developing a VB6 program (just to keep this on topic!) I installed
Google Chrome web browser. I did not like it and so I uninstalled it, and
upon doing so I discovered that all web page links (hyperlinks or whatever
you call them) in MS Word and MS Publisher and various other applications
failed to work, popping up a message to the effect that the operation had
been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer and that I
should contact my Administrator. So, I took the advice of the error message
and I contacted my administrator (me!) but I'm afraid I drew a blank!

Anyway, it turns out that Google Chrome had not only left behind numerous
unwanted registry entries (which the MS uninstaller failed to catch but
which Revo Uninstaller got rid of) but it also seems to have left behind
many "changed registry entries" that are actually required but that in fact
are left pointing to something that no longer exists. There was so much crap
that it was almost impossible to get rid of.

As it turned out, the solution was to install the Mozilla FireFox web
browser, which apparently corrected all those damaged entries, and then all
the links in MS Word and various other programs started working again, and
they continued to work even after I had uninstalled FireFox.

This is not really unexpected of course, because Micro$oft and Google are
currently fighting like wild beasts in an attempt to gain control over what
they consider to be the new web browser honeypot, and Google seem to be
winning.

Well done, Google. You are the new AntiChrist. That's not to say that I
actually like Micro$oft of course, because I don't, and I still think they
are a bunch of corporate gangsters, but I do admit that of late they have
been taken on by the new Google Gansters, who seem to be fighting even more
dirty than Micro$oft did, sometimes even surpassing Micro$oft's own nasty
gangster behaviour in Africa!

Mike
53 Answers

(nobody)

8/27/2010 9:16:00 PM

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"Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote in message
news:i599oq$jii$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> As it turned out, the solution was to install the Mozilla FireFox web
> browser, which apparently corrected all those damaged entries

Or you can use System Restore...

Mike Williams

8/27/2010 9:49:00 PM

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"Nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
news:i599to$jrc$1@speranza.aioe.org...

> Or you can use System Restore...

Or I could have gone the whole hog and brought the machine back to its "out
of the box" condition. But I always do that, and I always do a system
restore, as a last resort because there are often things I have done since
the problem arose (and before I noticed it) which usually make it more
desireable to find the actual solution to the specific problem, rather than
hitting it with a sledgehammer and messing up (or reintroducing) some
innocent applications that were installed at a later date. Besides, before
you can restore the system to the state it was in immediately before the
problem arose it is necessary to identify what the problem actually was, and
to identify the time at which it initially arose, or you can end up
restoring to a restore point that also has the problem, or to a restore
point long before the problem arose which messes up something else. When I
initially discovered the problem I had no idea that it was the Google
AntiChrist that had caused it (my post was just a quick resume of what had
happened, otherwise I would have been here all night writing it).
Paradoxically, it took a bit of "Googling" to discover what the problem
actually was ;-) Anyway, as I have said, an install and an uninstall of
FireFox was the solution to the Google Chrome problem, and it had the
advantage of not messing up anything else. Google is the new AntiChrist.

Mike

Mike Williams

8/27/2010 9:53:00 PM

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"Nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
news:i599to$jrc$1@speranza.aioe.org...

> Or you can use System Restore...

Actually I've just explained why I prefer not to do that unless it is
absolutely necessary, but something has just occurred to me and that is the
fact that, contrary to what Kevin recently suggested, it actually was you
that told me to fuck off, and not an imposter as Kevin suggested it might
have been. Thank you nobody. Maybe one day you will be a somebody ;-)

Mike

(nobody)

8/27/2010 10:12:00 PM

0

Okay, staying on topic for VB. If you do a system restore, your compiled VB
apps will also revert back to the way they were before the system restore,
so make sure that you recompile any recent things you have been working on!
There is a way to exclude certain files or folders that I have seen, it's in
MSKB somewhere.

Tom Shelton

8/27/2010 10:13:00 PM

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Mike Williams presented the following explanation :
> Come back Micro$oft. All is forgiven (well, some of it is!). Google is the
> new AntiChrist :-)
>
> Whilst developing a VB6 program (just to keep this on topic!) I installed
> Google Chrome web browser. I did not like it and so I uninstalled it, and
> upon doing so I discovered that all web page links (hyperlinks or whatever
> you call them) in MS Word and MS Publisher and various other applications
> failed to work, popping up a message to the effect that the operation had
> been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer and that I
> should contact my Administrator. So, I took the advice of the error message
> and I contacted my administrator (me!) but I'm afraid I drew a blank!
>
> Anyway, it turns out that Google Chrome had not only left behind numerous
> unwanted registry entries (which the MS uninstaller failed to catch but which
> Revo Uninstaller got rid of) but it also seems to have left behind many
> "changed registry entries" that are actually required but that in fact are
> left pointing to something that no longer exists. There was so much crap that
> it was almost impossible to get rid of.
>
> As it turned out, the solution was to install the Mozilla FireFox web
> browser, which apparently corrected all those damaged entries, and then all
> the links in MS Word and various other programs started working again, and
> they continued to work even after I had uninstalled FireFox.
>
> This is not really unexpected of course, because Micro$oft and Google are
> currently fighting like wild beasts in an attempt to gain control over what
> they consider to be the new web browser honeypot, and Google seem to be
> winning.
>
> Well done, Google. You are the new AntiChrist. That's not to say that I
> actually like Micro$oft of course, because I don't, and I still think they
> are a bunch of corporate gangsters, but I do admit that of late they have
> been taken on by the new Google Gansters, who seem to be fighting even more
> dirty than Micro$oft did, sometimes even surpassing Micro$oft's own nasty
> gangster behaviour in Africa!
>
> Mike

LOL... FINALLY SOMETHING WE AGREE ON!....

Despite what you think, I'm only neutral on MS - but, I particulary
don't like Google and their "don't be evil" crap.

--
Tom Shelton

Kevin Provance

8/27/2010 10:48:00 PM

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Time to whip out a small add-in to do an optional system restore before
compile.


"Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote in message
news:i59c3k$nkv$1@speranza.aioe.org...
: "Nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
: news:i599to$jrc$1@speranza.aioe.org...
:
: > Or you can use System Restore...
:
: Or I could have gone the whole hog and brought the machine back to its
"out
: of the box" condition. But I always do that, and I always do a system
: restore, as a last resort because there are often things I have done since
: the problem arose (and before I noticed it) which usually make it more
: desireable to find the actual solution to the specific problem, rather
than
: hitting it with a sledgehammer and messing up (or reintroducing) some
: innocent applications that were installed at a later date. Besides, before
: you can restore the system to the state it was in immediately before the
: problem arose it is necessary to identify what the problem actually was,
and
: to identify the time at which it initially arose, or you can end up
: restoring to a restore point that also has the problem, or to a restore
: point long before the problem arose which messes up something else. When I
: initially discovered the problem I had no idea that it was the Google
: AntiChrist that had caused it (my post was just a quick resume of what had
: happened, otherwise I would have been here all night writing it).
: Paradoxically, it took a bit of "Googling" to discover what the problem
: actually was ;-) Anyway, as I have said, an install and an uninstall of
: FireFox was the solution to the Google Chrome problem, and it had the
: advantage of not messing up anything else. Google is the new AntiChrist.
:
: Mike
:
:
:

Mayayana

8/27/2010 11:50:00 PM

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| Come back Micro$oft. All is forgiven (well, some of it is!). Google is the
| new AntiChrist :-)
|

No argument there. I can't figure out how it's
taken so long for the geeks to *begin* to see
that. People on Slashdot are often using Chrome,
even though one can only turn off script with a
command line option. Anbd it's not so long ago
that people were proud to have a gmail address...
with Google hoarding their emails.

The mainstream media don't seem to have figured
out that "don't be evil" is not proper English. It's semi-
literate geek-speak. "Evil" is used by geeks to refer
to things like stale cookies, or excessively long walks
from the parking lot into the mall. The public thinks
they actually meant "evil". :)


Abhishek

8/28/2010 12:06:00 AM

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at the end of the day a for-profit company is a company. I was very pro-MS
until they messed up VB. now I am neutral. I don't like Google, given a
choice MS is a lot better than Google.

I see Google desktop search, toolbar included with freeware like irfanview.
if Google were so contributing towards the open source community then they
would have invested in improving Firefox than doing me-too and making their
own browser.

I avoid using Google, i use bing not becuase its a better search engine but
becuase i dont want to be dependent on one provider. and i always use the
the term 'web search' instead of 'googling'.


"Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote in message
news:i599oq$jii$1@speranza.aioe.org...
|
| Come back Micro$oft. All is forgiven (well, some of it is!). Google is the
| new AntiChrist :-)
|

phil hunt

8/28/2010 1:23:00 AM

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i intalled chrome, and it installs a scheduled task in my system for
checking update. That's when I un-intall it.


"Abhishek" <abhishek007p@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:i59jtj$2j4$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> at the end of the day a for-profit company is a company. I was very pro-MS
> until they messed up VB. now I am neutral. I don't like Google, given a
> choice MS is a lot better than Google.
>
> I see Google desktop search, toolbar included with freeware like
> irfanview.
> if Google were so contributing towards the open source community then they
> would have invested in improving Firefox than doing me-too and making
> their
> own browser.
>
> I avoid using Google, i use bing not becuase its a better search engine
> but
> becuase i dont want to be dependent on one provider. and i always use the
> the term 'web search' instead of 'googling'.
>
>
> "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote in message
> news:i599oq$jii$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> |
> | Come back Micro$oft. All is forgiven (well, some of it is!). Google is
> the
> | new AntiChrist :-)
> |
>
>


Mayayana

8/28/2010 3:48:00 AM

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|i intalled chrome, and it installs a scheduled task in my system for
| checking update. That's when I un-intall it.
|

It's an epidemic:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180272/Mozilla_plans_to_silently_upda...