"Peter J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Spyware takes advantage of documented hooks into the Browser and OS >that Microsoft designed in for their own use
Spyware doesn't necessarily have to even do that; spyware functions can be deliberately built in to commercial software. Turbo Tax, IIRC, did that a couple of years ago. There have been several other instances of commercial software packages that reported user data to their home offices without user's permission. This is all, needless to say, platform independent. Spyware is the only reason, IMHO, to run a software "firewall" in addition to a hardware firewall. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
