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<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159908631>

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[Jbob]

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Too funny but Webroot, in that article, is calling Gator/Gain the #2 on the
list however PestPatrol just dropped that from it's list of detections due
to complaints from Gator/Gain.

[Fitz]

Below is a scary excerpt from that article:

"And no wonder some adware firms are pushing anti-spyware vendors to
"de-list" them from their detection and deletion scanners.
The most recent such move was by Computer Associates, which sells the
PestPatrol anti-spyware line after acquiring the company in 2004. Last week,
CA removed all Claria products -- including Gator/GAIN -- from its database
under its Vendor Appeal program.

CA has been criticized in the past for de-listing software other
anti-spyware vendors continue to list as malicious, and even Microsoft has
backed down in at least one instance."



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[Jbob]

This just in:
http://www2.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13066259

Basically CA (Pest Patrol) restored the detections after failing the eTrust
PestPatrol Scorecord. Not only that but added three new Claria products and
even changed it's definitions of the others. Now instead of just being
considered "adware" most are considered "Adware & Spyware"