Well, I must show some disdain for some programs... Such as McAfee... To add to my trials and tribulations, I was forced to get a new laptop, in this case, a Dell Inspirion 17R. It is a nice laptop, works reasonably well. What I have disdain for McAfee is how I tried to uninstall it, it didn't uninstall nicely.
McAfee tries very hard to help in keeping viruses out, however, it left itself on there for vbscript. When you have programs making use of vbscript and McAfee leaves its registry information in there, you can't run vbscript without making sure you get a program remover cleaner to fix the entries it changes or leaves behind because the installer doesn't de-install cleanly.
Lately, a lot of programs have become very sloppy. Programs designed for computers with more than necessary memory and CPU requirements. Not surprising as nowadays, the need to write programs faster takes priority over programs done properly. The old way of writing programs have become rather unnecessary as programming tools are put out to make things easier.
The real problem is, today's programmers and people who make the modern code these days never consider the 'idiot factor'.
The 'idiot factor' is situations where some one will do something idiotic that will make a program break down. Most programmers assume, "No one would do this..." And a hacker will go, "Hey... I can do this and use it to bypass something."
Sad thing is, a lot of people also fail this, as they assume people won't know your password or what not, and use very simple or easy passwords that they can remember, but fail to understand certain password security and the need for strong passwords as well.
