cybrdude
join:2003-08-16
| reply to pianotech
Re: Microsoft is in the pro-spyware business
And more and more spyware is being spread by TROJANS. My laptop at work became infected SEVERAL TIMES, Norton's new Corporate Anti-Virus finally found the viruses that are classified as a "download trojans". Also, much Spyware is spread by simply clicking on a link, the malicious code acts just like normal HTML data and is downloaded to the system. If you think Firefox will not be affected in the future, you are mistaken. As their user bases increases, these virus writers and Spyware/Adware coders will change gears and adapt.
Kudos to MS for this SW. It has found spyware on my system that Adware 6.0 personal, Spybot, Norton, and others have missed. For the last couple of months I was averaging 2 to 4 cookies a week on my home system (no other files or adware/Spyware), then the MS beta found 200 entries for 9 apps on my system.
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