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echo: osdebate
to: Frank Haber
from: Gary Britt
date: 2006-02-08 12:35:58
subject: Re: New Gateway Laptop Came With Spyware Pre-installed!!!

From: "Gary Britt" 

Its on the restore CD for sure, but at least now I know to and how to
eliminate it immediately.

Its spyware disguised as diagnostic software, and it must be set to not
really kick in the full fledged spying for the first several weeks, so the
poor dumb user will think the problems they are having have to do with some
software they themselves installed or after the user has done enough
installation and customization work on the PC that they are very reluctant
to wipe the drive.

Gary

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:43ea040a{at}w3.nls.net...
> PC Pitstop has been around for years.  I'm sure you'll be thrilled to know
> that a DOS, and possibly a Windows version probably still exist on your
> diagnostic partition or restore CD.
>

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