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Spyware vendors under attack

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

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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Brian:

Rouge is makeup. I think you meant rogue :)

brian

Posted by Brian | February 12, 2004 6:55 AM

Posted on February 12, 2004 06:55

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