I would strongly caution AGAINST doing anything with those until you've done some major research into them. I fully realize that WINE is hardly the be-all, end-all for Windows simulators, but I don't have a virtual machine installed on my laptop to really check the things out thoroughly. I tried installing one under WINE, and got nothing, but I did have an unusual executable with a gibberish name that did nothing and attempted to hide itself. The files are much too small to be much more than static images, and I'm not even sure they are large enough to provide the code needed to sit on specific areas on a desktop and I know for certain that they are too small to offer any real functionality with popping up on menus and such. All require installation and, in addition, the file sizes of those things make me nervous. Research, research and research before you download and install (especially if you are going to pay for one).Ĭheck this link for a short write-up from the creators of Spybot: Search and Destroy about Oska's Deskmates, if you want a little bit more info.Įdit :: I really, really want to urge caution with that neon-evolution site, as the only two pages working on it are the desktop buddies page and the IE skins (all other pages return 404, does not exist). In a case like this, Google is your friend, and a very good friend it will be. If you're going to look into desktop buddies, avoid Oska Software's, and be very, very careful about the ones you do end up going with eventually. Even uninstalling it did nothing until I did a very thorough system cleaning. Take it from experience (I bought one many years ago, while they were still new and unusual and before they went hyper-sexual with them) and had nothing but trouble after installing it. I will give you a warning, that one of the more popular 'desktop buddies' companies out there, Oska Software's 'Deskmates' are bundled with two very bad bits of adware, and one not-so-bad bit. While I hope nobody went to the site and installed the widgets they had, if anybody did, you would be well-advised to give your computer a very thorough scanning. It was a bogus site that hosted installable downloads that, when installed, installed a virus payload. NOTE ::This post refers to a post by Kokuyu, which has since been deleted for the safety of the any who may have followed the link without reading the entire thread.

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