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Spyware: What are you signing up for?
« on: April 06, 2005, 01:09:48 PM »
'Grey areas' are not OK areas...

A leading spyware expert has hit out at legitimate organisations who use wordy, confusing and over-long end-user licensing agreements (EULAs) to get users to download adware and spyware.

Increasing competition among adware authors and "ad-herders" is forcing them to look at new and innovative ways to get such applications onto users' machines and for many their activities are blurring the lines between what is and isn't acceptable.



Click here to find out what companies are installing spyware along with the rest of the story.
This came to me while chopping wood the other day. You've heard don't sweat the small stuff. I say save it for later and use it for kindling