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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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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"

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