Dell rejects spyware charge

Dell rejects spyware charge
John Leyden, The Register 2005-07-15

Dell has rejected allegations that its PCs come pre-loaded with an intrusive application that spies on users' surfing habits. The equipment manufacturer said there was nothing untoward about My Way Search Assistant despite complaints from customers that the toolbar impares computer performance, changes browser settings and is difficult to remove.

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Dell rejects spyware charge 2005-07-15
Anonymous (1 replies)

First thing you always do after buying a new machine is format the HDD. ...

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Re: Dell rejects spyware charge 2005-07-20
Anonymous (1 replies)

or maybe not format, but always run msconfig (on winXP and perhaps TCPView and ProcessExplorer from sysinternals and check everything that runs/walks/crawls. so see what loads....

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Re: Re: Dell rejects spyware charge 2005-07-22
Sean

No, no... Reformat. A New computer from Dell will have about 5 GB of wasted space on the hard drive if you're lucky. 10GB if they got carried away....

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Dell's spin on the whole mess 2005-07-16
Anonymous

It's not spyware, it's "secretly-look-over-your-shoulder-ware"!

Riiiiiiiiiiiight.

Jack

www.StupidStuff.ORG...

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Dell rejects spyware charge 2005-07-19
Anonymous

As an IT person this is just one more thing I do NOT need on a machine from the factory. I wish for corporate buyers they'd just ship a base install. nothing else....

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Dell rejects spyware charge- READ THE EULA 2005-07-19
lazurs (4 replies)

we collect the limited information that your browser makes available whenever you visit any website: including (a) your Internet Protocol (IP) address, (b) your domain (e.g., whether you logged on from compaq.com or whitehouse.gov), (c) the address of the last URL you visited prior to clicking throu...

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Re: Dell rejects spyware charge- READ THE EULA 2005-07-20
demonx

That information is available to ANY webserver you connect to. When the server says 'Hey man, what are you running there?', your web browser unless configured to do otherwise; will reply: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4"

If you are running...

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Re: Dell rejects spyware charge- READ THE EULA 2005-07-20
Cd-MaN

Some of the data you say is collected makes sense (from a marketing point of view :) ), however others don't. I wouldn't mind contributing to a general statistic, however I refuse to take part in actions which result in profiling *my individual* behaviour (which results from collecting cookies, IP a...

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Re: Dell rejects spyware charge- READ THE EULA 2005-07-22
Nekura

"your browser and platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Macintosh platform)"

Is there really this sentence in a *Dell* software EULA ?...

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Re: Dell rejects spyware charge- READ THE EULA 2005-07-22
Anonymous

Wow that is a pretty good definition of SpyWare right in the EULA!

And I was thinking of purchasing a dell for my neice.... I think I'll look elsewhere if they package junk like my way search...

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Dell rejects spyware charge 2005-07-21
JJ

Dell have developed an annoying habit of preinstalling a huge amount of clunky and frankly useless software on their PCs of late. Ordinarily, formatting the disk and reinstalling the operating system was the fastest way to clean out all these irritations (which massively increase the Windows startup...

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Dell rejects spyware charge 2005-07-21
Anonymous

Most people are just oblivious to these types of programs and assume they are of good nature. Just do it up with some smiley faces and free offers and most think; "hey, isnt this a great thing to have?". Non-the-less Dell should be pressured into removing this kind of junk programs as they end up ca...

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Dell rejects spyware charge 2005-07-21
Phobos

Dell is yet another large evil corporation trying to gather data on you in order to make money in some way or another.

As for the user, just another damn EXE or DLL that takes up memory, slows your system down, and is the technolgy equivalent of a blood sucking parasite....

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Dell rejects spyware charge 2005-07-26
Anonymous (1 replies)

Build you own system not hard to do and you will know what's in it. Dell sucks and always will.

Companies like Dell have more meetings on how to suck more money from consumers pockets. Just imagine what else is in the dell box that you don't know about yet?

I saw an article somewhere that dell...

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Re: Dell rejects spyware charge 2005-08-05
Anonymous

It's a hoax!!

http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp

has one of the better descriptions. Searching for "dell keylogger hoax" on your favorite search engine should pull up others.

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MyWay or the Highway 2005-08-07
Anonymous

I have had an outlandish experience with Dell. After purchasing a $2,500 computer, I received a PC filled with garbage. My spyware apps went nuts when first run on this system. It is clear that MYWAY has only one purpose-to keep your system hooked into the many firms which Dell sells ad space to. ...

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