Anti-Spyware Vendor Partners with Spyware Company?

Tuxedo Jack writes "eWeek reports that the anti-spyware vendor Aluria Software has partnered with WhenU of 'WhenUSave' and 'SaveNow' infamy. They've removed WhenU from their spyware/malware definition lists, certified their applications as safe, and they deny that money was involved. As a result, SpywareInfo and many other anti-spyware sites are delisting Aluria's 'Spyware Eliminator' from their lists of preferred software. Is this a dangerous trend for anti-spyware? Or are we just witnessing a natural evolution? I sure hope it's neither - I like my Windows boxes junkware-free, thanks (oxymoron noted)."

Comments

Uh oh a decenter

[chaffed]

go go gadget flame suit!

I like my Windows boxes junkware-free, thanks (oxymoron noted).

There is one thing that gets me about slashdot. That thing is the windows bashing. Windows XP IMO was worth the money. No other operating system makes my laptop function so well. OMG could that be the purpose of an operating system... no can't be...

I digressed, back to the topic at hand

Yes I'm a victim of the FUD :rollseyes: but the reason MS Windows sees all this crap is because they have 85-95% of the desktop market share. Now what is going to bring you more profit, targeting 10% of the market or 90% of it?

So this development is not exactly surprising. also their is so much competition in this software market that it's probably in the developers best interest not to sell out. If the developers sell out to everyone then they have lost the point of their business model.

Summation:

• Don't bash windows because it has a large market share.
• Don't bash microsoft for trying to make an OS everyone can use.. By everyone I mean 99.9% of the world that are not sycotic security admins
• This is as common as organized crime in the 20's and 30's. Take the money and look the other way.
• Finally there will always be an Eliot Ness

Symantec supports Chinese web censorship

[Secrity]

According to CNET Asia http://asia.cnet.com/news/software/0,39037051,3919 4057,00.htm "Symantec's Norton AntiVirus product has blacklisted a piece of software which enables users in China to access websites which are blocked by order of the government."

"According to a report in the Financial Times, the firm has said the program, called Freegate, should be considered a Trojan horse. "

Re:like anti virus companies

[MegaSpam]

Of course there's no such word as virii. There's also no such word as haxor. But people will continue to use them.