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Spyware problem (none / 0) (#1)
by Anonymous User on Sun May 02, 2004 at 12:00:42 PM PDT

I'm a computer tech with 20 years experience and I have to say Spyware is now - by FAR - the number threat to computing today. There certainly isn't a computer coming into my shop that doesn't have spyware on it (if they attach to the internet at all). I use Spybot and Ad Aware and have recently had to add Hijackthis to the mix in order to remove it. There is now a program from Coolware that exhibits some of the same elements as a virus: it's virtually impossible to remove and it replicates itself when it IS removed. I am seeing at least 10 computers a week that are coming to MY bench SOLELY as a result of spyware. I FIRMLY believe that there needs to be a precendent set: make the computer a piece of "private property" so that "tresspassing" on it can be declared a crime. Gunner



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