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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 2002-10-17
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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