Hi, Sunday, January 16, 2005, 2:37:46 PM, Mark wrote:
> "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. Well, quite often they do have the user's permission, strictly speaking. The permission to use the spyware is hidden deep within the worthless end user license agreements that noone reads. -- Cheers, Bob
