Everytime you boot up your
computer you are greeted by
two or three little announcements
from the Real One Player people,
and a whole side bar window
opens up covering half your
screen. You don’t ask
it to, it just does. And when
you ask it to go away, it
resists. For the privilege
of using their stupid video
player you must put up with
what basically amounts to
a bunch of spam and pop ups
all the time.
While I have no proof, I
suspect it is even more sinister
than this. After I installed
the Real One Player I noticed
my computer began slowing
down considerably and acting
strange immediately afterwards.
It crashed a lot more often,
and I got loads more pop up
ads when using the internet.
I’ve become convinced
that the Real One Player people
also take the opportunity
to slip in a bunch of spyware
on your computer when you
run their installer.
Getting the Real One Player
off your computer is a pain
as well. After a few days
I’d had enough, and
tried to uninstall it. While
it uninstalled normally, I
was still getting annoying
messages from the Real One
Player people on booting up.
It wasn’t until I scoured
through my list of programs
on the ‘Add/Remove’
list that I found a couple
of other sneaky Real One programs
hiding out. Thankfully, getting
rid of those did the trick.
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