FYI: Screensaver: Help with medical research

[Guest guest]

Help with medical research through your screensaver:

http://www.intel.com/cure/

 

The Intel® Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program combats life-threatening

illnesses by linking millions of PCs like yours into one of the most

powerful computing resources in the world. This " virtual supercomputer "

uses peer-to-peer technology to make unprecedented amounts of processing

power available to medical researchers, thus accelerating the development

of treatments and drugs with the potential to cure diseases.

 

You can take part in this ground-breaking Internet-based project by lending

your PC's unused resources to the greater good. There's no cost to download

and run the program, and no noticeable impact on your computer's

performance, because the medical research programs take advantage only of

processing power you're not using.

 

For more info, go to: http://www.intel.com/cure/

[Guest guest]

Michelle Hughes wrote:

>

> Help with medical research through your screensaver:

> http://www.intel.com/cure/

>

> The Intel® Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program combats life-threatening

> illnesses by linking millions of PCs like yours into one of the most

> powerful computing resources in the world.

 

This is absolutely the worst thing you could do. This makes your

computer vulnerable to hackers, viruses and other things. Your are

surrendering your control of your computer to the whims of whomever

has access to the other end. It is like issuing someone you don't know

a blank check and trusting they will not use it for more than agreed

upon.

 

Only the most absolute of fools would allow this. Don't get conned by

it.