"the Internet, a development that promises social control"

[Vincent A. Maeder]

Ad-Aware also has a program that can be purchased which monitors your
internet connection for spybots and other happy visitors from our
browsing.  However, all of these types of programs put a drain on the
system resources, slow the browsing process and prevent some sites from
loading.  Such is the nature of advertising that it has become,
literally, a covert process.  Now then, going full circle to recent
Orwellian discussions, let's imagine what governments can do with
similar technology...

V.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of Steve Maas
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 3:01 PM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: "the Internet, a development that promises social control"

I wasn't aware of Spybot but there's a useful program called Ad-aware
at:
http://www.lavasoft.nu/
The basic version is free. Even with a firewall, Ad-aware found some 
data-miners on my computer...of course, some may wonder if the program 
implants its own while deleting competitors....

Steve Maas

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s~Z wrote;
I was noticing some weird little icons popping up periodically on my
vidscreen and began doing research about virus infections and the like
and
ended up downloading "Spybot: Search and Destroy" only to discover that
almost 300 spyware files had been installed on my computer. Even with as
much blocking power as I have been able to find, a half dozen or so of
the
buggers sneak through every day.

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