Dave, I’ve got We-Blocker filtering software installed on my laptop, but I’ve lost the password. It offers password retrieval for $10.00, but its phone number is no good. Is there any way that you know of to hack the password, or to force-uninstall the program? I’d like to get rid of it. There is one guy on the Web who claims that he can tell you how to do it, but you have to send him $10 in advance… I’m leery.

I can’t imagine a more frustrating and annoying problem. Any application that won’t let you uninstall it is just bad news and something I’d want to know about before installing it so I could avoid even going near the download.

We-Blocker seems like a great little free program on the surface; a common complaint with We-Blocker is when it installs it goes quickly through the setup and password process and if you blink you’ll be having to make that $10 phone call to its tech support, and this appears to be how it makes its money.

So be careful when installing third party apps that play such an important roll in your daily computer usage!

If you can’t remember typing a password, it could still be set to the default, which is..

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