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Spyware vendors under attack

Posted by geeknews at 2:08 AM on February 12, 2004

There has been some reporting that some Spyware companies have been paying for pop-up ad’s that if read buy the un-educated would scare the consumer into buying anti-spyware software. Not to mention some of the vendors selling anti-spyware software are in fact rogue programs that install there own spying programs and call home. [ZDNet]

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One Comment

  1. From Brian at 6:55 am on February 12, 2004

    Rouge is makeup. I think you meant rogue :)

    brian

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