I haven't been "informed" about those, but Adobe does install McAfee, which I then remove with the Windows Remove tool. Maybe the next time I have to update it. <sigh>
They're all a blankity blank nuisance.

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The latest trick with piggyback downloads is to include them in the �standard� install. Unless you chose the �custom� install you never see the prechecked boxes (but you are excepting them) for the crapware they are trying to push into your system. They install without any further warning.

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Yes, SOP by some supposedly reputable software houses to force other 'stuff' onto your computer or change settings that you don't need or want.

I was caught by the same trick as Mo recently. Note to self - always check for other unwanted 'stuff' and if in any doubt "ABORT". Unfortunately, older versions of Java have serious security flaws, so a newer version is necessary.

To copy where Les leads ... blanketty blank nuisances.

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Exactly the sort of thing that led me to defenestrate (to borrow a term I learned somewhere on these boards) over 10 years ago :)

That would be my ideal route to follow.

In the meantime Jim's advice to always choose the custom install is the way to go.

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Defenestrate the OS. There's are better ones, and they are totally free

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6,000?? Give it a rest.

G�bekli Tepe is more than 10,000 years old. And quite intricate I might add.

Explain that!

I have reactivated this thread because I have noticed something. The hadcm3n WU�s have stopped failing. I know earlier in this thread I said that I was going to stop running them, but, I had 5 hadcm3n WU�s on my machines (and wasn�t going to waste them) so I decided just to run them until they failed. Then they just stopped failing. Nothing else changed. No changes to my machines or the way I was using them.

Maybe I was just having a string of bad luck with the WU�s I was drawing. More likely, I think is was the WU�s themselves. I think it likely the Scientists were testing a set of WU�s that had extreme settings and that they knew that most of them would fail.

I realize that the Scientists learn almost as much from finding out what doesn�t work as what does, but, I would be nice if they would let know this in advance. It would allow us to know that we weren�t just wasting our time and electricity. A bump in credits for running these �high risk� WU�s would ensure that they get run. After all, it�s not like the credits cost CPDN anything.

So I guess I was wrong, running Hadcm3n is worth the trouble.

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I have reactivated this thread because I have noticed something. The hadcm3n WU�s have stopped failing. I know earlier in this thread I said that I was going to stop running them, but, I had 5 hadcm3n WU�s on my machines (and wasn�t going to waste them) so I decided just to run them until they failed. Then they just stopped failing. Nothing else changed. No changes to my machines or the way I was using them.

I have seen no failures since 18 June, and thought it was due to some change in my hardware, or the BOINC projects I run.

I guess not.

Yup - seems the same here -- had only one "INVALID THETA" in the last month or so.
And the mains power here has survived several thunderstorms that took out half a million homes for 1-4 days. Lucky.

But then I've wasted several wu's with new installs and trying to set up virtualization --

Many models I'm running seem to have failed on machines that get "can't find track" or "device does not" -- no way around that kind of error on this distributed project.

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The last WU I had kept triggering error messages that BOINC asked to be terminated in a non-standard way (or words to that effect). It took a while to work out which project/WU was causng the problem till I watched to see which one was taking CPU time without progressing.

That was two weeks ago. Since then, I've not received any WUs from CPN. Is there something I need to do to re-enable it?

For part of that time the project was down with a hard disk failure/replacement/raid rebuild.
And since then there's been no work available, which is often the case here.
The server status page can be accessed through the blue menu to the left of here, 5 from the bottom.