Whoever is responsible for making ad-ware that installs itself by pretending to be something else, has no automatic uninstall, and thwarts attempts at manual uninstall by hiding in invisible folders or by giving itself a random name and squeezing in with similarly named files that are necessary for your system to run, and which continuously bombards you with crap while at the same time downloading and installing more ad-ware without asking, should be be hung up by their thumbs until they repent their sins. I have a degree in computer science, access to good online resources for dealing with scumware, and it still took me three hours to (maybe) clean one computer.
Grad students who install this stuff on semi-public computers are right up there on my thumb-hanging list.
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