re: hijacked by spyware
Wednesday, October 5, 2005 at 11:13 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Anonymouse
(412 messages posted)
Er...what, exactly, is "legal spyware"? There's no such thing
as uninstallable spyware! Has ANYONE on this board heard of spyware which
gives you an option to remove it?! Come ON!
They don't WANT people to uninstall their crap! And replying to unsolicited
emails will not get you removed from their mailing lists - all that does is
to confirm they've got a valid email address, after which they'll send MORE crap!
Surely everyone's got the message by now:
DO NOT
REPLY TO UNSOLICITED EMAIL. EVER. NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER.
Of course, everyone's free to ignore this advice; it's not my place or anyone else's
to lecture anyone. But if you do, do not blame me - or anyone else giving similar
advice - for the consequences. As Mad-Eye Moody might say: "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!"
:)
On Wednesday, September 28, 2005 at 5:38 am, biskit wrote:
>to stay legal any spyware must have an uninstall feature, however there is no requirement
>to make them easy to find or use. look around the page it opens and the page main
>page that might be linked to it, the uninstall feature is usualy hidden on the small
>print at the bottom of the page, also look in add/remove programs in the windows
>control pannel for anything that looks like it may be connected to the popups. if
>that dosnt work try creating a hotmail account and useing that to email them demanding
>thay provide a tool to uninstall thair crap. do not use your normal email as thay
>probably will spam you and keep a copy of all the emails you send them and thay
send
>you. if thay refuse you may be able to sue them.
>
>
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