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Spyware in Audio Galaxy

Posted by michael on from the private-eyes-are-watching-you dept.

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.

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  1. Spyware/Windows by Kool_Cat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is it just me, or is Spyware a windows-only term?
    I've seen Freeware for Linux, Shareware for Mac, and whatever-ware for every other system out there. But I've only seen Spyware mentioned with Windows. Has there been any sneaky "shareware" with popular Mac or *nix binaries? Obviously nothing open-sourced (unless with closed-source libs?)

    Why don't we just call it Windows? AudioGalaxy, a full Windows program taking advantage of all Windows "features".