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This article made me twitch.

I’m currently at CES, showing some new technology.

I thought the only virus-related thing that would intrude on my week would be this covid thing that seems to be popular right now, but noooo….

We have a number of PCs and laptops here to run our presence - digital signage, tech demos etc - and on at least half of them I’ve had to waste my time removing Norton or McAfee products, on account of their mania for popping up on the screen at inopportune times - “Would you like to renew your subscription?”, “Install our browser plugin?” etc etc. Aaargh. If I could get hold of the eejit that prepped these machines…

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