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Spyware in Audio Galaxy
LintMan and a zillion other people wrote in about the story on Portal of Evil discussing spyware bundled with Audio Galaxy that seems to be even more nasty than usual. Others have written about it as well - there's Counterexploitation and Wired stories. Frankly, we're kind of bored by all these spyware/shareware stories (don't people learn?) so we let it sit around in the submissions bin for a few days, until, say, a slow Saturday night.
The only problem is the Hax0r doesn't have an EULA to protect him.
Consider this: Write an Outlook worm that disguises itself as some useful app and sends itself to your entire addres book. Enclose a EULA in microscopic letters, pointing to a privacy policy on your website. Now you're 100% covered.
You can write:
YourCompanyName will not be responsible of any billings made using your credit card number collected by our software
Free money!
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
I think it was the "Stuff that matters" bit which prevented them from putting it up right away. If you want security alerts, then there are plenty of other sites which will do that, but I'd hardly count this as "News".
Sorry Mr. Senior Tech Support. Nobody meant to offend you Senior knowledge.
Goodbye
how many times must we tell you, these are FEATURES!!
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