So what's a zwinkie and what do you do with them?

Stop shilling for the zwinkies.

Dammit. Now I'm hungry....

All I know is nimh think zwinkie girls aren't all emo anymore.

or something like that.




perhaps that's all I really need to know.

Do you think I should be emo instead?



The weekends almost here and I have some spare time between steam cleaning up some cat vomit, and washing out a few things.

What'll it be, zwinkie or emo?
I'll let group pressure prevail.

Definitely zwinkie. Emo is crap.

At the most charitable, Zwinky only may be classed as a Potentialy Unwanted Program. It comes from IAC Search & Media, a firm known for deceptive practice itself and for close association with even shadier affilliates, partners, and redistributors.

See This discussion and its accompanying Detailed Analysis.


This is a log of what installing Zwinky 's unavoidably bundled, but undisclosed, tag-along stuff does. Following a standard Add/Remove Programs uninstall of Zwinky, even knowing what else to look for and uninstall, dozens of problematic, highly suspect entries remained scattered among numerous folders, some in "Hidden/Protected" folders (difficult for the average user to find, unalterable by conventional means), "System" folders (not only Hidden/Protected, but critical to the Operating System), and throughout the Registry, calling for some fairly sophisticated, relatively heavy-duty, pretty irritatingly nit-picky cleanup (without getting all technogeek on you, Rootkit and Alternate Data Stream detection, termination and removal were necessary to rid the infected machine of all traces). All in all, the installation took quite bit less than 5 minutes, the uninstall and cleanup shot helloutta the better part of 2 hours.

timber's take: Zwinky is prolly not something you really oughtta wanna get yourself into.

Wow! Timber, that's scary. I'm so glad the ads were too annoying to get me to click. Although I have to admit I was almost overwhelmed by the urge to dress up the little dollie person.

oooo timber...i'm staying away from zwinkies.

thanks!

Talking of Zwinkie-like stuff Chai - your avvie - are those brains, balls or broccoli?

Just wanna drop in here and make clear Zwinky itself isn't exactly a nasty, but it travels with a bad crowd - if you don't know what to look for and how to manage a user-structured install, you'll most likely avoid aggravation if you steer clear of the bunch.

Balls....and I'm dripping Gold Bond powder on them.

ok, so my sister downloaded this, is there an easy way to remove it?

Welcome to A2K, aeil.

Try the steps delineated by timberlandko in this thread:
http://www.able2know.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=91834