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Which Adware and Spyware are the Most Insidious?

Posted by Cliff on from the sneaking-on-to-a-machine-near-you dept.

the_dreadnought asks: "I was just asked today which adware and spyware are the most insidious by an acquaintance. He asked me if this stuff was really legal, or was it just not important enough for law enforcement to deal with? I know the porn stuff (not from experience,,,ok, from experience) that dials out to foreign countries is one of the more extreme examples, and Gator is well known, but if Slashdot readers could describe what adware and spyware they think is the sneakiest I would appreciate it. Also, any thoughts on whether some of this stuff is even legal, as it is almost certainly not ethical."

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  1. Re:One word...GATOR by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: 0, Troll
    Assuming that by referencing "Hell", you are believing the tenants of a religion that has such a concept - please point me to where in any of the basic religious texts of religions with the concept of hell, there is a statement concerning software which behaves badly. I do not believe such a provision exists.

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  2. Re:hotbar by Espectr0 · · Score: 1, Troll
    One program that really annoys me is hotbar. The main reason so, it adjusts your MS Outlook settings all the time turning off using Word as your HTML editor.


    No one on his/her senses uses word as their mail editor. Any one that uses word gets sent to /dev/null in my box.

    Plain text is the standard. Use it or lose it. You don't seem to know what horrid html word uses to send mail.
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  3. Better solution. by twitter · · Score: 0, Troll
    deny software to run based on Certificates (and Path, and Hash, and Zone for MSI)

    Great, so my printer and modem drivers which are not signed won't run? Wonder if I can run a Linux Loader? Pththth-fit! What junk.

    How about a better answer, like removing that steaming pile of excriment known as XP from your computer and using something without a designed to be rooted and sold architecture?

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  4. Re:One word...GATOR by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wasn't that a creation of Dante's rather than being written in the Torah?

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  5. Re:Why isnt your Mom using a Mac? by hesiod · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Why isnt your Mom using a Mac?

    Because she doesn't want to throw down five grand on a computer just to check EMail & browse the Web, maybe? The $500 PC does more than what she needs, prolly. Unless Gramma's doing 3D rendering, of course...