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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Where Does Advanced Mac Cleaner Come From?
Date: 20 Aug 2018 16:03:40 GMT
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On 2018-08-20, J Burns <burns@nospam.com> wrote:
> On 8/19/18 8:34 AM, Lewis wrote:
>> In message <ftr58kFltkpU3@mid.individual.net> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> On 2018-08-18, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>>> In message <1ntogjr.qfo5c1c07bakN%csampson@inetworld.net> Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:
>>>>> Does anyone know how I might have picked it up? I'm pretty good about
>>>>> not messing around with sites that are unfamiliar. It might have been
>>>>> done by one of the other users of this computer, in which case I will
>>>>> speak to him sternly.
>>>>
>>>> It is generally installed by the user, often without their explicit
>>>> knowledge as it will be a "feature" of a downloaded installer.
>> 
>>> In this case, very likely a fake "Adobe Flash" installer:
>> 
>> Then it's really hard to have any sympathy. Anyone dumb enough to
>> install Flash...
>> 
> I'm sympathetic.  Until recently, 24hoursofhappy.com required it.

Are you sure about that? Did you try changing your user agent to an iOS
string? Often that's all that is needed to play videos on sites that
falsely claim Flash is required on desktop browsers.

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