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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."

2 of 48 comments (clear)

  1. This is almost completely meaningless by lightspawn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Most spyware actually informs users somewhere in the very long license agreement, and would not be affected by this.

    Completely criminal spyware - installed completely without the user's knowledge (such as that found on some discs claiming to be music CDs) is already illegal.

    This is just a 'feel-good' measure which will not actually change anything; at least the intent, unlike CAN-SPAM, wasn't evil here.

  2. Re:Easy removal by 00420 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm more worried about the stuff I might not of found

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

    You may find something that nobody's aware of (I did - and it got submitted to Spybot)

    --
    Have you tried Linux yet?