"the Internet, a development that promises social control"

[Paul Mackin]

Question: Since all browsers (I think all of them) allow one to erase
any or all of the various cookies that have been placed on your hard
drive, wouldn't this be an effective way to get rid of the objectionable
spyware activity? I don't know the answer to this.

P.



On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 09:43, Paul Mackin wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 18:00, Steve Maas wrote:
> > 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....
> 
> 
> In other words, there ain't no free lunch.
> 
> 
> P.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Steve Maas
> > 
> > ----------------
> > 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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