@blended7674
1:08 Norton 2:03 McAfee 4:17 NordVPN 7:53 Shopping extension 11:03 PC speed booster 15:51 Pre installed software 17:36 Other software included in free programs 18:30 Precautions in pirating software
@PartscasterPaul
This brings back memories. My former mother-in-law was a prolific PC killer. I think I wiped and reinstalled her laptop close to a half dozen times, but it would only take her a month or so to gum it up again. I used to say, she never met a link she wouldn't click. She even got scammed into an expensive PC maintenance contract with a company in Asia, and they installed a bunch of suspect looking software. To this day, I'm still surprised she didn't get phished out of her life savings.
@andrewcorbin4851
Bro called out Honey before the Honey scandal
@satchguitar84
Incognito mode does NOT do anything to hide your information or data transferred from your ISP or any bad actors. Incognito mode is not more secure, it just doesn't store browser data locally. That's all it does.
@jvakorsven
You all should 100% do a video where you load all of these and other programs onto a rig, test the hell out of it, and then remove them and test it again. Just for fun.
@desto13c
You left out Windows11.
@BeretBay
9:01 The algorithm knew what it was doing recommending me this video after Honey got exposed.
@ChloeVFX
One thing I was told as a kid. "Your brain is the best anti-virus. If something looks too good to be true, it is." Never click on suspicious links.
@Astarath
as a network engineer that works for an ISP: If you're using a VPN, we don't care. At all. In any way whatsoever. In fact, if you're going to do dodgy stuff like torrents, we'd prefer you use a vpn, because that means less RIAA/MPAA/etc. complaint emails to deal with. As far as transit costs go, VPN use is just as expensive as non-tunnelled "naked" data throughput. There's no incentive to care.
@JPDC624
Totally agree. Older folks in church ask me to help them buy laptops or PCs, and when they arrive, I do a full reset immediately and start with a clean image, and just grab the needed drivers. 👍
@TjPhysicist
7:09 like the addage says: If you're not paying for the product, you are the product. The thing with "Free VPN" is that, unless it is free because your buddy set it up and runs it, then it's free because the company is getting something out of it. notably: your data.
@Sgt_SealCluber
I don't even click links in emails I do trust. Financial places I go directly to them and log in, just in case.
@marigeobrien
The FIRST general rule to avoid any scams (apart from never click on a link within an email) is, if you receive an email that says ANYTHING about being charged at all then call your credit card company and check your purchases THERE. Do not call any numbers they give you. Call the number on your statements. Basically, when checking, stick to things you know are reputable / real.
@Norbrookc
Norton and McAfee have been crap for over 20 years. Back then, I was a computer tech and the amount of effort that it took to clean up the mess they left (god help you if it crashed during install) was insane. Calling them resource hogs is an understatement.
@AAWT
A (paid!) VPN makes total sense, advising against it is bad advice. Just because one company messed up doesn't mean the whole concept is a bad idea. Asus Armoury Crate is missing from the list, which should be the very first mentioned.
@guycomputer829
Man! So glad to see somebody calling out all of this garbage! A shop I contract repair work for deals with this on a daily basis, and people will actually push back thinking that we're giving them bad advice about these junk programs. It's a real pain some days.
@notsoelusive
My Mum just bought a $1400 laptop, then got talked into paying for norton and office. The first thing I did was uninstall Norton, then she told me she paid for it... I told her next time don't buy a computer without me.
@joyl7842
My gf's mom had so many "bars" from installed applications in her browser that the actual window was half the size lol.
@allankuria9923
8:05 Hello from the future. So about Honey....
@eternalsugarhigh6843