I also work in a PC repair shop, and when someone's pc comes in with the problem of "behaving erractically," the culprit usually is spyware... The spyware that usually tags along with Kazaa, Morpheus, and Grokster. I use SpyBot S&D to remove the spyare, and sometimes that does break the P2P software. I then explain to my customers what spyware is, and how they got it. I leave the option of re-installing Kazaa up to them. I don't have to snoop around their pc at all to do this, and I'm only performing the action that the customer has requested. Anyone who say's that they would sue for such an action is just being an ass.
Where I go to school (LSU), the campus police don't need a warrant to enter your dorm room. It's part of the contract that you sign. The Residential Assistant came into my room to turn my alarm clock off... he doesn't need a formal written form, he just needs a "good" reason. Anything in "plain view" can be confiscated if it's suspicious... at our school, at least, students, although adult, have no privacy rights.
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I also work in a PC repair shop, and when someone's pc comes in with the problem of "behaving erractically," the culprit usually is spyware... The spyware that usually tags along with Kazaa, Morpheus, and Grokster. I use SpyBot S&D to remove the spyare, and sometimes that does break the P2P software. I then explain to my customers what spyware is, and how they got it. I leave the option of re-installing Kazaa up to them. I don't have to snoop around their pc at all to do this, and I'm only performing the action that the customer has requested. Anyone who say's that they would sue for such an action is just being an ass.
Actually, it's more like comparing sweet apples to horse apples.
As long as they don't call it Ybox! I can imagine the implications of that... Y? Becuse it's good for you!
Where I go to school (LSU), the campus police don't need a warrant to enter your dorm room. It's part of the contract that you sign. The Residential Assistant came into my room to turn my alarm clock off... he doesn't need a formal written form, he just needs a "good" reason. Anything in "plain view" can be confiscated if it's suspicious... at our school, at least, students, although adult, have no privacy rights.