quote: Buyer (harryspoon)chose to call off work with this coder (bilal)when he discovered that the coder was simultaneously creating a site to market and sell a product competitive to the same product he was creating for the buyer. The coder claims that the buyer hired him because of his expertise and knew about the site but the buyer states once he found out about the site he wanted to cancel. RAC cannot confirm or deny these statements. [snip]
I wonder how many others are doing the same thing? The "skill" goes to the highest bidder.
What I find disturbing is that the rip-offs outnumber the valid applications. The average person who sees a product "catching" 1,000 instances of "spyware" as opposed to 15, 20 or less on a legitimate product can easily be swayed to the crapware.
We look at this every day. We are aware of the garbage out there, and the best still feel defeated at times.
Imagine those who never heard of "spyware" or "malware," and they come across a site like the one Eric posted or read an occasional article on spyware, and one day decide that it's serious enough to start "battening down the hatches."
Where do they go to look? They type the word "spyware" into their favorite search engine, and if they are lucky, they'll discover the "right" product(s) to use. It's a 50-50 shot they will choose "correctly."
I deleted them in xp admin too !