On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 10:14:21 -0700, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, Kyle Thomas
Pope <kurokyle@notmail.spam.not.com> wrote:
>
[snip]

> 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.
>
[snip]

Quite correct. Which is why, as useful as popular after-the-fact band-aids
like AdAware or SS&D are, they can never be a proper substitute for simply
not putting yourself in a position to need them in the first place. That
means do NOT use known-bad software like MSIE/OE, DO use a decent firewall
(a proper hardware-based one being STRONGLY preferred), do NOT routinely
web-browse with scripting or Java enabled, DO use a local HTTP-filtering
proxy (like Proxomitron, for example), do NOT install anything "blind"
(i.e., DO have at least one known-good full backup in hand before starting
any install or update, then use a decent installation tracker like InCtrl),
do NOT enable ANY "automatic update" features in ANYTHING, including Windows
itself), and so on and so on.

In short: Practice Safe Computing.

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Jay T. Blocksom
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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