“Ladies and gentlemen, what I have here is the cause…err…cure for the problems that ail you! Step right up, step right up!” Everyone has seen this in the old western movies. The shifty salesman comes into town, selling snake oil. The typical ending is that he gets chased out of town, being tarred and feathered.
Much of the same could be said of the XP Antivirus program and its relatives. They all claim to be the cure for what would appear to be a horrendous infection. It only costs $50 or so to “cure your ills.” Of course, it doesn’t work that way.
These programs infect your computer. Then they aim to charge you money to make your problems go dormant for a while. Of course, they eventually reactivate, and ask for more money. This is, figuratively, the very same thing the snake oil salesman does.
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