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by Anonymous User on Sat May 28, 2005 at 07:35:35 AM PDT

By Hazmeister:

I did a spyware scan with Spybot Search & Destroy (and both downloadable updates) the other day and found 57 entries of Backweb supposededly put their by HP.  It was ridiculous!  I suspect it probably added some of the other bits there as well.  What's even annoying is that the information doesn't even seem to go to HP.  It goes to some company called Cameocast.  It doesn't seem to be on all PCs (my nan's PC is clean), perhaps other people could check their own PCs and get back to me.  I wonder if they added it when I sent it into repair (They definitly used a different recovery image).  This is kind of ironic as HP have this new course on protecting your PC from spyware.  By the way Microsoft Anti Spyware is useless at finding this stuff.   See links Below:

HP AntiSpware Course
HP.http://hplearningcenter.com/courses/overview.jsp?courseId=3193&hplcpsession=55f8770e221cf4eedf52 ea90cdc3

About Back web
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/threats/177.html


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