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Just released, Open Office 2009

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by jdclyde

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You heard right. Open Office 2009.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=ldQ&q=openoffice+2009&btnG=Search

It is a scam program that tricks the novice user into giving out their credit card information after the install and "registration".

Just got off the phone with a user who had done this to his home system, and wondered why it didn't look like the version I had loaded at work......

He is off to call his credit card company right now, then will uninstall the app, and then a nice AV scan.

Anyone else see this?

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by boxfiddler Hot topic

I haven't seen it yet. I'm not in the market to upgrade my OpenOffice either. It works as is, no jumping into the fire just yet here.

by jdclyde

but haven't really taken it for a test run yet.

The only reason I know about the scam is because that user called, so I did a quick check and yeah, scam.

As soon as he said Open office 2009 I knew there was trouble....

This is one of my "trouble" users. You know the kind. The ones that waste their time listening to Kim Kamando and reading her newsletter even though I have explained her advice is for a home user at best, and would get the average employee fired for trying anything she recommends.

by ben "iron" damper

I wondered if I was the only one that heard of Kim.
I heard her radio show on a long distance drive once, very BAD advice from that lady!
You need to block that guy from viewing her website for sure.

by jdclyde

when Wordperfect was still the standard.

MS went from word 2 up to word 6 because that was the version number Wordperfect was on and people figured if it had a higher version number it HAD to be better.

IF Wordperfect and lotus 1-2-3 had joined together in a suite instead of the asinine suites of their own, Office would never have got their foot in the door and the world would be a very different place today.

by rob miners

everyone thought that they were going to get something better. I can still remember making up the keyboard templates for the Wordperfect shortcuts. I had to mass produce them as the kids kept pinching them. They were good programs and I still have copies. Actually the first program that I ever used was Quattro Pro and if I remember correctly by pressing a function key you were using Lotus. I had no problems picking up Lotus, mind you I had a good tutor.

by michael jay

Had not seen this yet but passing the word on, they never stop do they? Did your user get it in an email or what?

by michael jay

Kim? had never heard of her before but thanks for the warning.

the site says;
Every day, Kim scours the Internet for fun & useful programs, all available for FREE! Don?t worry about adware or badware, they are Kim-tested & approved!

Right LOL

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