[CS-FSLUG] Is Deleting Spyware A Crime?

["國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)"]

There're some spyware out there that are trying to pass themselves off
as spyware detectors.   Have U got SpyBot Search and Destroy installed? 
Try uninstalling Spyware doctor and then do a test with SpyBot.

I'm using a modified version of Fedora Core 3 on my laptop, and it's
working fine.  What was the problem that U encountered?

Christopher Rose wrote:

>If deleting spyware is a crime, then I am guilty (isn't that what we do when we delete windoze and install, BSD, Linux, Minux, etc?). Let me put it this way. I ran a test. I created a fresh install of windoze98 and then (from a CD) installed spyware doctor. I found 89 instances of spyware (including a keystroke logger, and "bot" that was apparently meant to monitor sites visited with IE) on a fresh install that had never been connected to a network. Either the spyware doctor is spyware or microsoft forces you to install software.
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>Regardless, I like Linux (no spyware yet) and will stay with it. I just wish I could figure out why I couldn't get the Fedora Core 3 ISO to work.
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>Pax,
>Christopher Rose
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>From: "國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)" <survivor at brisnet.org>
>To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group." <Christiansource at ofb.biz>
>Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Is Deleting Spyware A Crime?
>Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 12:16:39 +0800
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>>http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/329
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>>Is Deleting Spyware A Crime?
>>The murky waters that sustain the spyware companies may have a few
>>unpleasant surprises just beneath the surface.
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