On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:46:17 -0400, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "Dan"
<djones21@cogeco.ca> wrote:
>
> Does anybody else have difficulties with spyblaster ...
[snip]

SpywareBlaster is a pointless rip-off, since its primary (near-sole, in
fact) function is to de-fang *some* ActiveX controls. But ActiveX has *NO*
place on any properly configured computer system, especially one connected
in any way to the Internet. That combination is *iherently* an open
invitation to Bad Things[tm]. It inescapably follows from this that having
any program installed which can or will download and/or install ANY ActiveX
controls disqualifies a system from being described as "properly
configured". The fact that many shiny new computer systems come out of
their boxes similarly misconfigured does *NOT* change that.

--

Jay T. Blocksom
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Appropriate Technology, Inc.
usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"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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