Spyware Fights Back · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by michael on Wednesday April 24, 2002 @08:11AM from the building-a-death-star dept.

sparcv9 writes "According to the latest issue of Spyware Weekly, the Radlight media player not only searches your hard drive for Adaware, but will uninstall it if found. How do they attempt to legitimize this? By including a clause in their EULA that reads: 'You are not allowed to use any third party program (e.g Ad-aware) to uninstall application bundled with RadLight. Such programs will be removed. If you want to uninstall them, you may do so via Add/Remove in Windows' Control Panel.' Yes, that's right. Not only do they say you are not allowed to use Adaware to remove their bundled apps, but they will forcibly remove Adaware for you to make sure you don't!" There's also a Newsbytes story.

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Re:Bruce willis is dead in the sixth sense by richlb · 2002-04-24 08:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Bastard! I just rented it for tonight!

Oh well, I just found out yesterday that the guy in The Crying Game is really a chick!
Re:Bruce willis is dead in the sixth sense by Peter+Trepan · 2002-04-24 09:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Would that be in the regular sense of being dead, or in the career path sense?

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