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Spy v. Spy

Posted by michael on from the shaken-not-stirred dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MSNBC is reporting on a brewing battle between makers of spy software and anti-spy software. According to this article the makers of Spector and WinWhatWhere have added a feature to their new software that disables the popular anti-spy software Who's Watching Me."

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  1. Mmmm.. FUN! And a legal nightmare.. by Fixer · · Score: 5, Interesting
    IANAL, BIAAIL (But I Am An Interested Layman)..

    Okay, this is my computer. I purchase a piece of software that is supposed to detect snooping software hiding out on my machine. Said snooping software destroys my anti-snooper, interfering with it's proper operation and generally depriving me of it's service that I have paid for.

    Shouldn't I be able to sue the snooper software, as I did not ask for it and did not give any kind of authorization for it's installation into my system? To say nothing of the trespassing charges I'm going to bring against the snooper developer..

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