Sign of things to come: you turn on your PC, and one of your programs starts deleting another, because it doesn't like it. Well, it is self defence, isn't it? According to a Newsbytes report from Germany, RadLight v3.03, a DivX player, deletes Lavasoft's Ad-Aware, which many people use to delete the advertising "spyware" bundled with many free programs. Ad-Aware is useful because it deletes all sorts of junk including Alexa, Aureate, Comet Cursor, Cydoor, Gator, OnFlow and TimeSink. The only pity is that it doesn't remove Real Networks code, unwanted instant messaging programs and the other rubbish many users get lumbered with.
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