Evil in the office

[mdlbear]

Apparently, when I installed the driver for the laser printer the other day, it managed to blow away Adobe Acrobat 5 and replace it with 4, which of course rendered some PDFs unrenderable and unprintable. Which seems appropriate somehow.

There is no fscking way installing a printer driver should mess with any other software on my system without (a) checking to see if there's a more recent version and (b) asking my permission. But of course this is Windows we're talking about.

People wonder why their Windows systems become infested with malware.

Actually, this post was just an excuse to show off my shiny new userpic, which I ganked from this T-shirt order form.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

TurboTax, when I used to use it, would replace the version of QuickTime installed on my system, with no option to prevent it from doing that.

[sroth.livejournal.com]

This has happened to me several times with IE. Once a piece of
~software would work with 1 and only 1 version of IE - and not
the newest version. I didn't even use IE for browsing, but its
help system did and it wouldn't run with out its help. I guess
it needed it.

(Any chance the t-shirt will be sold at Linuxworld?)

[mdlbear]

Don't know; it's certainly available online, though.