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echo: nthelp
to: Frank Haber
from: Ellen K.
date: 2005-02-28 13:22:38
subject: Re: spyware techniques

From: Ellen K. 

Can you uninstall it?

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:08:18 -0500, "Frank Haber"
 wrote in message :

>McAfee's suite (trial version) came on a new Dell I'm probably keeping
>(over-ordered, and the client bit for two, not three).  I specified "no
>antivirus," but guess what installed itself on the second boot?
>
>So now I'm keeping an eye on the stinker.  On the odd days when I turn
>everything on, I'm finding amazing behavior.
>
>o It warns stringently about an installed Alcohol 120%, flagging it as an
>"undesired program."
>
>o It won't let you copy something named the same as a Nero 6 serial-crack
>generator program to the machine. (I was testing it.)
>
>I suspect this kind of commercial and Big Brother-ish
*overenthusiasm" will be
>worrying us even more in the *very* near future.

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