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RetroCoder Threatens Security Vendors
john83 writes "RetroCoder the company that brings you SpyMon, a commercial keylogger is trying to stop vendors of security software from looking at their software. RetroCoder uses a EULA that prohibits anti-spyware publishers / software houses from downloading, running or examining the software in any way. Essentially, they're trying to hide a key logger behind copyright law." While they are certainly not the first to do so, it is interesting that companies still take this approach.
lets dupe the comments as well.. :P
"Ah. the popular "Bend Over" EULA."Friends don't let Friends use Internet Explorer.
They're way off track with this one. It should be the responsibility of the person monitoring their PC to ensure that no Anti-Spyware programs are installed. If they can't do this they obviously don't have the authority to deploy a keylogger.
Anti-Spyware companies are only doing their job.
Oh woe is me! A dupe. my eyes, my eyes!
I must purge myself of this evil by adding to the multitute of wailing about duplicate postings, and add some extra comments about how much slashdot sucks, the only reason I come to it is to feel superior.
It burn, oh how it burns!
RETROCODER WRITES SPYWARE!!
There, come sue me now you silly fucks.
feh. stuff.
If every piece of spyware presented me with an EULA to agree to before installing itself I'd be much happier!
Funny how fresh, new and on topic submissions get rejected whilst the same old junk (and sometimes dupes too) get through.
Nonsense. The Slashdot Random Story Submission Selection System is completely fair and without bias.
It just needs a shuffle feature so that tracks^H^Hstories arne't repeated so often.
May the Maths Be with you!
I think you'll find, if you read the slashdot EULA, you are NOT ALLOWED to check for dupe articles.
Lawers will be contacting YOU!
Jolyon
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