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echo: nthelp
to: John Beckett
from: Geo
date: 2005-02-23 06:08:46
subject: Re: spyware techniques

From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:421c40e6.3065998{at}216.144.1.254...
> "Geo"  wrote in message
news::
> > why would AV companies ignore spyware? I keep asking myself that one and
the
> > answer I keep coming up with is they want a new market to develop before
> > they buy up the players.
>
> Likewise I'm very suspicious of this. However, I did see a suggestion that
> some spyware companies are very aggressive and US based. They might
> successfully sue if another US company arbitrarily declared their software
> "evil" and removed it.

Yet adaware and spybot exist and now MS has theirs?

Geo.

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