SINC

Perhaps like many of you, I visited the thread on the Pepsi contest and in doing so, also visited links provided by ehMac members.

Today I was sitting in my office reading the newspaper when I glanced over at my trusty eMac. I did so because the screen went dark as it does just before it shuts down and goes to sleep.

Much to my amazement, a Pepsi screen saver appeared on my screen. I watched it for about two minutes and then it disappeared.

Since I have never downloaded a Pepsi screen saver, I can only assume that somehow, when I visited one of the links, the site automatically imbedded this screen saver in my eMac.

Upon checking in my screen saver file, it shows up as "PepsiSS1". Has anyone else noticed this or am I the only one?

Cheers

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Dr.G.

Sinc, it has not happened to me, but I have heard of such things. Not sure of how this takes place, and Ad-aware is usually there to pick up most of the spy-ware data miner cookies, but one never can tell when it comes to technology.

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Chealion

With Mac OS X, there is no one for anyone to install any software on your computer without you (or someone) entering your password. You must have downloaded the screensaver to try it out in some way shape or form and had run the installer (or had the computer install it by double clicking on a .saver file).

Or it is possible it was someone else in your family or had access to your computer. But it wasn't the web site, that much I can tell you.

If you don't want the Pepsi screensaver, find the "PepsiSS1" screen saver (either in ~/Library/Screen Savers/ or /Library/Screen Savers/) and throw that file into the trash.

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SINC

Thanks for the explanation Chealion.

Come to think of it, my son's 13 year old god daughter was here last week and spent a couple of hours on my computer.

Methinks that is where it must have come from.

Cheers

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