New Pet Peeve

I’m slightly annoyed at the Comcast tech right now. When he installed our cable modem, he also installed some crap on my system that replaced my default search engine. I don’t install software from vendors, unless I choose to. Given that I’m running Vista (and yes, I do like it), it also gives me more control over security by know exactly what is installed. Plus that, I don’t want my system secretly sending stuff, whether for monitoring the network, or collecting information outside of network activity itself.

BTW… I also dislike the new trend of installing browser toolbars.