Re "the Internet, a development that promises social control"

[Vincent A. Maeder]

Nope, as these spybots burrow into the registry and cover themselves up
as some sort of necessary program, file, by co-opting Windows extensions
and so on.  I only half-understand this stuff, but these buggers make
themselves appear legit AND necessary... sounds like some Administration
programs... 

In any event, you need something like Ad-Aware to do a deep (and time
consuming) audit of your system regularly.

V.

-----Original Message-----
Paul Mackin wrote >>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.