My OperaOK. This DummyWindowless. What is it? Whose is it? And who left it there?
Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:00:54 PM
Yup. DummyWindowless appeared on my computer the day before yesterday. The earliest posts I can find about the thing are from 2008 and people are still posting.
The two most common opinions are that it's a Mozilla/Firebird thing and that it's harmelss, or that it's a Flash/Macromedia thing, and it's decidedly not harmless. One of the things it's blamed for is computer slowdown, and boy have I been experiencing that lately...
What I don't understand is how no one has successfully identified it yet. Who did write it and what does it do? Is it a supercookie? Why, when you can get the message "DummyWindowless is not responding" can you find no reference to it anywhere on your machine no matter how deep the search?
One thing's for sure, if no one's admitting to it then it's not something nice, so I'm downloading everything that claims to be able to deal with it, whether it be Flash or Firefox.
Which probably means that I'm downloading all sorts of crap that will slow my machine down even more...
Augh! Steaming aardvarks! I do so hate Windows. I suspect that this computer is only days away from becoming a Linux machine...
...and much faster for it.
The two most common opinions are that it's a Mozilla/Firebird thing and that it's harmelss, or that it's a Flash/Macromedia thing, and it's decidedly not harmless. One of the things it's blamed for is computer slowdown, and boy have I been experiencing that lately...
What I don't understand is how no one has successfully identified it yet. Who did write it and what does it do? Is it a supercookie? Why, when you can get the message "DummyWindowless is not responding" can you find no reference to it anywhere on your machine no matter how deep the search?
One thing's for sure, if no one's admitting to it then it's not something nice, so I'm downloading everything that claims to be able to deal with it, whether it be Flash or Firefox.
Which probably means that I'm downloading all sorts of crap that will slow my machine down even more...
Augh! Steaming aardvarks! I do so hate Windows. I suspect that this computer is only days away from becoming a Linux machine...
...and much faster for it.
Loiscakkleberrylane # Saturday, May 1, 2010 10:57:30 PM
Deke # Saturday, May 1, 2010 11:05:46 PM
The thing is, if this exquisite little inconvenience is Flash based, then it could infect Mac and Linux too.
Ooh er...
Loiscakkleberrylane # Tuesday, May 4, 2010 10:25:11 PM