Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Is JunoShield legal?
Yes. I've rooted around in Juno's license agreement, and it says you cannot reverse engineer or disassemble the Juno program, nor can you create derivitave works based on Juno's code, nor can you terminate or block the transmission or receiving of advertisements; but it does not say you can't cover them up with another program. I don't even use the Juno logo! I've included a file, legal.txt with the program which has the exact quotes from the Juno license agreement and a couple of other points as well.
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Q: Why can't I display animated GIFs?
That would require me to include an extra OCX in the program, making it bigger and probably costing me a little money. But besides that, I think animated GIFs would defeat JunoShield's own purpose; I wrote the program to get away from flashing blinking little things going on in the corners of my screen.
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Q. Ever think about writing a shield for "NetZero," a free ISP that also uses advertisements?
Superficially. But I'm against it for a couple of reasons. Either I can essentially create a duplicate of JunoShield with the same code but a different name; or I could allow users to define more than one set of window coordinates to cover up, which would significantly complicate the interface; but there is a bigger problem.
The different thing about NetZero is that it checks continuously to see that its own ad display is the topmost window. So I would need to put a similar loop in my hypothetical NetZeroShield in order to combat this. But two programs vying for the top screen space (even a couple of times a second, which is slow for a computer program) would cause a lot of annoying flicker, and probably degrade system performance as well. So I have decided not to think about it for now.
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Q: Can I actually delete Juno advertisements? Why not build this capability into JunoShield?
Yes, there is a way to actually delete them, but I pride myself on the fact that Juno Online Services, LP, can't touch my program because it's totally legal. Deleting Juno's advertisements would technically violate the license agreement which every Juno user agrees to when they get an account. Besides, it would kind of make my program pointless, wouldn't it?
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Q: Why does my graphic file look so ugly when I display it in JunoShield?
If you have the "Stretch Image File to Fit Window" option selected, then your image is being altered so that it will fit in JunoShield's window. If your image's original dimensions are significantly different from JunoShield's window, then some distortion is sure to take place. Note: Your image file is not being permanently altered, just manipulated while in memory.
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Q: Does JunoShield's uninstaller remove its Registry keys?
No. I use the setup creation utility that came with VB5, which does not handle that stuff. Juno saves its settings in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\Software\JoelDueck\JunoShield key. If you are uninstalling JunoShield (heaven forfend!) you may wish to fire up Regedit and delete the JoelDueck key. On the other hand, if you reinstall JunoShield later, all your settings will be there waiting for you!
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