eburger68
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Re: WMP Adware: A Case Study in Deception
Ed:
You wrote:
said by edbott  :The one license agreement says it will pop up porn ads on my computer. The other says it will do a whole paragraph's worth of awful things, including installing more spyware. I'm not sure which program is doing the installation of the 31 extras, because I didn't actually allow my test machine to be taken over. It was the first one that installed most of the software in my testing, and that matches what Ben found as well.
The second one did install a few things, but not much beyond what was already there. I'm guessing that much of what it could have and would have installed independently was already installed by the time I clicked through the iDownload.com installation prompt.
Eric L. Howes |
