"Kyle Thomas Pope" <kurokyle@notmail.spam.not.com> wrote in message
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> Given the popularity of the two programs Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D as
> well as the many times they've been mentioned in this forum as
> must-have apps for anyone concerned with keeping spyware and malware
> off their machines, I am curious as to whether the spyware and malware
> distributors have ever tried releasing into their products routines
> designed to disable, destroy or bypass Ad-Aware or Spybot. It would
> seem to me a spyware vendor would like nothing better than a spyware
> app that cannot be detected and removed from the target system by any
> means.
>
> -----

GOD don't give them any ideas please ! The spyware folks keep trying and
the AdAware/Spybot/firewall folks keep tracking them down in a never ending
race. I did run across some code at MSNBC a while back that reset all the
ZoneAlarm privacy settings for the MSNBC page to Allow. Turned off
javascript for MSNBC & blocked akamai - which means no menu and no
pictures - and it hasn't happened again. Pages load in a flash too - but
ugleeeee as heck.