Re: Ad-aware installs spyware

[Rod Barnhart <rod.barnhart () gmail com>]

Also, as has been previously pointed out, SpyBot, in a prior version,
detected AdAware's quarantine and reported it. This has not been the
case for a very long time, though. Also, there was a program that was
based on stolen SpyBot sourcecode. I don't recall if that program
contained spyware itself or not, though.

Rod Barnhart




On 8/9/05, Greg <security-basics () pchandyman com au> wrote:
> Just answering the original subject as I missed the original letter here.
>
> Where DOES this rubbish come from? Well, I can tell you. There are various spy adding programs similarly named to 
> Adaware and Spybot and the trouble here is that if you don't find out the right info, download from the right source 
> etc, you can get caned.