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RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious
From: "Michel Py" <michel () arneill-py sacramento ca us>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 04:05:23 -0700
William Warren wrote: I second that. The version I saw required a third party registry editor and booting up into the recovery console from an XP cd (safe mode didn't cut it) just to remove a hidden dll.
Which is why I made the executive decision to re-image instead of trying to fix, as unfortunately a new variant requires spending more time learning it, which is not worth it. :-(
What I don't understand is how exploiting bugs in a program (internet explorer) to install software without the consent or even acknowledgement from the owner/user is legal behavior.
<me puts the devil's advocate suit on> There is a grey area between being legal and not being illegal. Compare to the junk fax issue: it was not legal either (as it spent the recipient's money without authorization) but it did take special legislation to make it specifically illegal. If you were to go to court it would not be a slam dunk by any means; it is going to take more nuisance that there has been so far for the legal system to do something about it. Trouble is, it does not prevent you from using the computer, mostly. Michel.
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- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious, (continued)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious David A . Ulevitch (Jul 12)
- plumbers coming down the pipe Paul Vixie (Jul 16)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Paul Vixie (Jul 12)
- Problems with private justice (was Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious) Sean Donelan (Jul 13)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 13)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Alexei Roudnev (Jul 13)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Petri Helenius (Jul 13)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Alexei Roudnev (Jul 14)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious John Underhill (Jul 14)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Niels Bakker (Jul 14)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious John Underhill (Jul 14)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious sthaug (Jul 14)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious (let's return to reality) Alexei Roudnev (Jul 14)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious (let's return to reality) Brett (Jul 15)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious (let's return to reality) Curtis Maurand (Jul 15)