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When Spyware Crosses the Line
Kelly Martin, 2004-06-23

"Spyware" isn't harmless software when it starts hijacking your browser, downloading updates, and displaying adult porn images to small children.

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Don't blame the victim -- spyware != file-trading 2004-06-27
Fra. 219
A great deal of spyware has NOTHING to do with file-trading programs or anything else the user installed. Google for "drive-by download" -- the use of security holes (some of them still unpatched) in IE, to force a download upon an unsuspecting user.

I've seen "office humor" Web pages -- the sort...

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