Shutting Down Spyware Loopholes

Shutting Down Spyware Loopholes
Mark Rasch, 2002-10-07

A recent court decision against AOL Netscape finally puts some limits on the clickwrap contracts that make spyware legal.

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Shutting Down Spyware Loopholes 2002-10-09
Mel (1 replies)

What's even more annoying for a regular consumer is the click wrap/shrink wrap agreements that come in products that they buy packaged at the software store.

Essentialy you can't see the Terms on the EULA (that you are bound to) until after you've opened up the packaging that it has come in. Once...

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Shutting Down Spyware Loopholes 2002-10-15
Mark Rasch (1 replies)

Actually, all of the caselaw goes the other way. The lead case involves someone who bought a Gateway computer, and it arrived with a form contract inside, saying that the purchasor had agreed to binding arbitration and the only way to avoid it was to send the entire computer back. The court held t...

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Shutting Down Spyware Loopholes 2002-10-15
Sean Tomlinson

Unfortunately, that's not a good comparison. Working in technology retailing, we have a strict policy on returning open software. It doesn't happen. (Basically, this can be blaimed on the dark side of cheap CD burners.) The computer COULD be returned (hopefully for full value).

I think the ...

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Shutting Down Spyware Loopholes 2002-10-17
Kevin Shannon

Most SpyWare is simply programmed with a static path for the location of the SpyWare executable. Whenever I discover SpyWare on a workstation, I remove it (including registry entries) and do one of two things:
1. Delete the executable and replace with an empty directory with the same name as the ...

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