Another potential reason for going "going down the spyware" patch is the possibility of classifying some legitimate software as sypware and automatically removing it from the entire enterprise. I remember a case on this a few years ago in the UK where their primary software was classified as spyware. (ahahaha).

It surprising that 50% of the help calls to dell are about spyware related issues.

What is the end user supposed to do? I've automated ad-aware and spybot and currently looking into Giant software.

I'm surprised the corporate environment is having problems with this.

my $0.02...

~karl

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