Mike Temporale
04-08-2004, 01:45 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.com.com/2010-1032_3-5187106.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news' target='_blank'>http://news.com.com/2010-1032_3-5187106.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news</a><br /><br /></div>"For weeks I had been investigating companies that claimed to offer spyware-fighting software, but secretly distribute spyware or other advertising apps along with their products . Because I wanted to put myself in the shoes of the average computer user, I deliberately let down my protections to load the applications in question. Not the swiftest decision, I was told by the IT technician who hauled away my machine to reimage the hard drive. After weeks of increasingly worse headaches, the machine started surreptitiously pumping viruses onto the corporate network."<br /><br />The writer, John Borland from C|NET explains how things went from bad to worse and all this was from installing a Spyware fighting application. It's a very interesting read. Not all Spyware removal tools are created equal. If you support friends, family, co-workers, or staff at your company you might want make sure they install the good spyware removal tools like Ad-aware.