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echo: osdebate
to: Robert Comer
from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2006-04-16 00:32:18
subject: Re: Company warns on IE patch

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Also, using any toolbar or plugin requires the 3rd party browser extensions
to be enabled, which in itself is a security problem in my books.


Antti Kurenniemi
(and it cannot be neutered - it's inside the browser, so any phone home
-type of activity is pretty much undetectable)

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:44416099$1{at}w3....
> >I don't see it as spyware.
>
> I sure do, it's written in the same way with the same intentions.  Just
> because you *may* be able to neuter it matters little.
>
> --
> Bob Comer 
>
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:44413dff$1{at}w3....
>>I don't see it as spyware.  My hosts file blocks their ads, and I keep the
>>phone home stuff turned off usually.
>>
>> Gary

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