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Oh, the horrors of downloading off the Internet!!!

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Real Estate Agent with Sabinske & Associates, Inc. (Albertville, St. Michael)

So, I think I am pretty computer savvy.  I wanted to do HD photography and found a site that promised it for free with five stars....oh, yeah.  Whose five stars?  Well, I downloaded it and read the tutorial and then, declined the yahoo toolbar, the blah-blah, the blah-blah-blah, the blah-blah-blah-blah, and it intstalled.  Great.  Now, what do I do.  No explanation of how to use it.  But, guess what, I have a new browser.  Something called My Freeze.  Yay!  All kinds of muckety-muck.  Sorry I'm partial to my own web brower, which does a mighty fine job for me and has my email at a click.  While all this was transpiring, I lost a BPO for $75.00 US Dollars which would have been a nice sack of groceries for the household. 

Lesson learned?  Oh, yes.  Free is NEVER FREE and watch your back every moment.  It took more than twenty minutes to rid my computer of all the &?^%# it tried to upload.  Four stars!  Right!

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Sara Homan
Coldwell Banker Ellison Realty 352-209-4044 - Ocala, FL
Realtor, Homes, Farms & 55+

It really is so easy to fall prey to slippery websites and downloads.  How easy it is to be tricked!

Jan 14, 2010 10:02 AM
Mary Douglas
United Country Ponderosa Realty, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado - Red Feather Lakes, CO
REALTOR, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado

Hi Suzanne, Well, good for you to be rid of it, sorry you lost the BPO, though.  I think they should warn us about all the things they plan to do to our computer BEFORE we download :-)

Jan 14, 2010 11:18 AM
Valerie Spaulding
Windermere Peninsula Properties~Allyn~Belfair~WA - Belfair, WA
Allyn-Belfair-Hood Canal-Local Expertise!

I know I hate the thought of even THINKING of downloading something new.... I'll just keep what I got -thank you very much and free most definitely always has strings attached!

Jan 14, 2010 11:48 AM
Suzanne McLaughlin
Sabinske & Associates, Inc. (Albertville, St. Michael) - Saint Michael, MN
Sabinske & Associates, Realtor

Thanks, guys.  I usually know what I am doing and can ferret out those nefarious folls.  But this one caught me...I clicked through a lot of the empty downoads and my security caught some as well, but when I went back to my home page, it was completely new...myfreeze.com.  I would advise you to stay away from netadvisor.com and my freeze.com  They are both difficult to be rid of. 

Jan 14, 2010 12:11 PM
Debbie Walsh
SHAHAR Management - Middletown, NY
Hudson Valley NY Real Estate 845.283-3036

Thanks for letting us know about this-sorry you lost the BPO!  They pay well for BPO'S out there eh?  You lucky girl!  One thing I have that is free is Photoscape and Gimp.com is free too.  Not sure if either one of them is good for you.  Good luck chickie!!

Jan 14, 2010 12:13 PM
Susan Mangigian
RE/MAX Preferred - West Chester, PA
Chester & Delaware County Homes, Delaware and Ches

I am still pissed that you can't do BPO's in PA without an appraiser's license!  But back to your problem.. every time I download something, something goes awry!  xxoo

Jan 14, 2010 01:51 PM
TeamCHI - Complete Home Inspections, Inc.
Complete Home Inspections, Inc. - Brentwood, TN
Home Inspectons - Nashville, TN area - 615.661.029

You are right about Free not really being free. Usually there is a catch...

Jan 14, 2010 08:26 PM
Gary Woltal
Keller Williams Realty - Flower Mound, TX
Assoc. Broker Realtor SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

Suzanne, I hate it when that happens. The key phrase with downloading is trusted source. Hope you can figure out who you can trust.

Jan 15, 2010 05:25 AM