Spyware

[flix]

Here is a topic to post all the programs you KNOW have inbuilt spyware

Kazza
Gator
Any Brilliant software


my list ends continue it please

[TelexStar]

gamespy arcade >:(

[Cabe]

I voted NO.

As It shouldnt be there in the first place.

http://www.lsfileserv.com to rid yourself of those pesky ki.....sorry spyware :)

[KermitTheFrag]

erm does the tick box make any difference?

GET YOUR SPYWARE FREE GOODIES HERE:-

http://www.cleanclients.tk/ <-- w00t and stuff

[flix]

lol good point

NO SPY WARE!!!!!!!!!!

[flix]

Originally posted by KermitTheFrag

http://www.cleanclients.tk/ <-- w00t and stuff

Thanks frag for the url i have kazza_rebound now so no more crappy spyware for me today

[SmartMonkey]

If you are not the only person using your pc and you want to check for and remove spyware, the best (free) product I have found to do this is Ad-Aware.
It is available from www.lavasoft.de (get the update utility whilst your there) and allows you to scan your registry, memory and hard disk for spyware.
It is also updated prety regularly (there were 3 ref file updates in April)

[bvark]

regulation controlling whether spyware can be installed or not (e.g. a mandatory checkbox) is the wrong answer

the market will decide what place spyware has on people's pcs

programmers who want to earn money for their work (shocking concept) by using spyware will be discouraged if no-one uses their software

companies who aggregate and sell marketing data from spyware for money will be discouraged if the data is very low quality or in very low volume

[Zenith]

The problem is that there isn't that much publicly available information about a qualitative or quantitative analysis of spyware data returns.