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Congressional Anti-Spyware Bill Introduced

Posted by timothy on from the paper-tiger-until-passed dept.

CRCates writes that U.S. "Senator Conrad Burns has introduced new anti-spyware legislation. The bill would make it difficult to for software to download and install itself without the user's knowledge. The bill would also require notification, consent, and procedures for easy removal."

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  1. Easy removal by zcat_NZ · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have yet to find any spyware that wasn't easily removed

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    1. Re:Easy removal by jpop32 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Do what I did. Open the task manager and do a Google search for each of the processes.

      Which works well if the nasty is listed as a separate process. Which is not always the case. For example, all services go under a couple of master-processes (svchost.exe, services.exe). Furthermore, nasties don't need to be resident, they can be invoked when an activity of interest takes place. So you may miss it, except for a couple of seconds they do their bussiness.