IMPORTANT FYI! Spyware you may want to know about....

[DaMenace]

Hey yet another topic posted on my clan forum came to this...
A certain new breed of spyware called Cool Web Search has surfaced...
I'm not sure if this has been posted before but I thought you guys would like to know..
Follow the linky:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html

And to my disbelief I even had a variant of this and I'm real paranoid when it comes to this stuff... svchost is the one I had..

Be sure to look into this and fight the system!

[WorknMan]

As I side note, if you're going to insist on using IE (which I highly recommend you don't), be sure and get all the latest patches for IE and Microsoft's Java Virtual Mess ... er, I mean ... Virtual Machine.

Nevertheless, as far as the spyware goes, there seriously ought to be laws. When I break into someone's machine, they call it hacking. When some corporation or business breaks into my machine, it is called collecting aggregate information.

[Shane R. Monroe]

Oh yeah .. I concur ... I don't get how they can install Comet Curor or that ghey gorilla without asking the user anything.

Did I mention today that I HATE IE?

As I side note, if you're going to insist on using IE (which I highly recommend you don't), be sure and get all the latest patches for IE and Microsoft's Java Virtual Mess ... er, I mean ... Virtual Machine.

Nevertheless, as far as the spyware goes, there seriously ought to be laws. When I break into someone's machine, they call it hacking. When some corporation or business breaks into my machine, it is called collecting aggregate information.