The way I read the note, it said anything that spies on a user is considered illegal unless backed by FBI, Law Enforcement, or Court Order. Since encase can be used to image a machine from anywhere if your set it up that way, silent to the user, this borderlines on spyware. I am not 100% sure of how the new law is written, but I would be very careful and review it carefully.
I would be very careful with this, due to the new law passed it is now illegal to install any spy related software like key loggers and such unless
1) Law enforcement
2) Goverment
3) Court Order
Giant Anti-Spyware is a great product as well. It offers spynet distributed network to enhance the service. It also protects from applications from installing services and start up items as well as few other things that really help a lot.
Pest Patrol is a great product when it comes down to trojans and key loggers, the problem is it doesn't auto update, the program corporate version isn't nearly as nice as the private on as it seems much more clugy, and Computer Associates just bought them out which ussually means it will go down hill.
Spysweeper is a good product but like most Webroot stuff it is quite buggy when they went to 3.0 version. It also has some unique scanners to protect applications from doing bad bad things.
Remember the problem is not just spyware, most AV products do not scan key loggers or trojans all that well either.
I found this site that has 10% off a lot of these products if you guys want it, I have it bookmarked.
"Most users average around 30hrs a month and are almost "email only" users"
Thats exactly how they make their money. A typically ISP services 10,000 users only expecting 15% of that to be in use at any given time. Then they stretch it to try to get 20,000 of the same equipment.
"So that means I can tell the shithead who is maxing out my circuit with a BT download or kaaza to shove off and I become more profitable"
Well they purchased unlimited access, thats what they are using, calling them a shithead just shows your ignorance. Using what you pay for is not doing anything wrong. The problem is the ISP's not the consumer, they lower their prices to compete with more aggressive ISP's, customers didn't change the price structures or what plans were offered, if they can't provide the service they advertise, they need to raise the price or change the plan. None of this is effected by the users. And I will tell you, there is alot of people who use alot of bandwidth and arn't doing illegal activity, some of us do work remotely moving files to and from different sites which consume bandwidth as well.
"You have to be crazy if you think I am going to let you turn a residential DSL into a dedicated fractional t1. Did you see the price of fractional circuits and the price of DSL and think there was no difference?"
Actually, you would be surprized, phone companies can run a T1 to your house for the cost of a phone line. It is mostly the network equipment that eats up the costs and the fact that it is still profitable to do T1s. But there is quite a large profit margin on DDS lines.
"We could argue all day about what you think "unlimited" should mean but all that matters is how the term "unlimited" is defined in your TOS"
Unlimited is unlimited, period. who gives a damn what the TOS says, it is false advertising to refer to it any other way.
"And Dial up... how much do you pay for a phone line? You think for $9.95 a month I am going to let you tie up one of my lines 24/7!? "
Well again, it is only 1% is the problem, thats how companies work, some will use more service most will use alot less. Insurance is the same theory, not everyone gets into accidents every year, but since thats true, they don't have to charge $5,000 a year (avg claim?).
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The way I read the note, it said anything that spies on a user is considered illegal unless backed by FBI, Law Enforcement, or Court Order. Since encase can be used to image a machine from anywhere if your set it up that way, silent to the user, this borderlines on spyware. I am not 100% sure of how the new law is written, but I would be very careful and review it carefully.
I would be very careful with this, due to the new law passed it is now illegal to install any spy related software like key loggers and such unless 1) Law enforcement 2) Goverment 3) Court Order
Giant Anti-Spyware is a great product as well. It offers spynet distributed network to enhance the service. It also protects from applications from installing services and start up items as well as few other things that really help a lot.
Pest Patrol is a great product when it comes down to trojans and key loggers, the problem is it doesn't auto update, the program corporate version isn't nearly as nice as the private on as it seems much more clugy, and Computer Associates just bought them out which ussually means it will go down hill.
Spysweeper is a good product but like most Webroot stuff it is quite buggy when they went to 3.0 version. It also has some unique scanners to protect applications from doing bad bad things.
Remember the problem is not just spyware, most AV products do not scan key loggers or trojans all that well either.
I found this site that has 10% off a lot of these products if you guys want it, I have it bookmarked.
http://algorithmconsulting.com/buysoftware.html
"Most users average around 30hrs a month and are almost "email only" users"
Thats exactly how they make their money. A typically ISP services 10,000 users only expecting 15% of that to be in use at any given time. Then they stretch it to try to get 20,000 of the same equipment.
"So that means I can tell the shithead who is maxing out my circuit with a BT download or kaaza to shove off and I become more profitable"
Well they purchased unlimited access, thats what they are using, calling them a shithead just shows your ignorance. Using what you pay for is not doing anything wrong. The problem is the ISP's not the consumer, they lower their prices to compete with more aggressive ISP's, customers didn't change the price structures or what plans were offered, if they can't provide the service they advertise, they need to raise the price or change the plan. None of this is effected by the users. And I will tell you, there is alot of people who use alot of bandwidth and arn't doing illegal activity, some of us do work remotely moving files to and from different sites which consume bandwidth as well.
"You have to be crazy if you think I am going to let you turn a residential DSL into a dedicated fractional t1. Did you see the price of fractional circuits and the price of DSL and think there was no difference?"
Actually, you would be surprized, phone companies can run a T1 to your house for the cost of a phone line. It is mostly the network equipment that eats up the costs and the fact that it is still profitable to do T1s. But there is quite a large profit margin on DDS lines.
"We could argue all day about what you think "unlimited" should mean but all that matters is how the term "unlimited" is defined in your TOS"
Unlimited is unlimited, period. who gives a damn what the TOS says, it is false advertising to refer to it any other way.
"And Dial up... how much do you pay for a phone line? You think for $9.95 a month I am going to let you tie up one of my lines 24/7!? "
Well again, it is only 1% is the problem, thats how companies work, some will use more service most will use alot less. Insurance is the same theory, not everyone gets into accidents every year, but since thats true, they don't have to charge $5,000 a year (avg claim?).
It doesn't mean jack, surf the web for 5 minutes and you have spyware.
nuff said.