Spyware Fights Back

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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[tps12]

So someone made some shitty Windows mp3 player that does something stupid and in general mucks up ones system. This is news? Why do they need so many mp3 players, anyways? You collection of Beastie Boys and Beck can only be played one at a time, anyway.

If you don't need Windows for work or whatever, I would recommend a better operating system. If you would all install Linux you could stop worrying about stupid problems like spyware, and focus on things that matter, like getting your video card configured.