Frenchy

Spyware Researchers Discover ID Theft Ring

stevenator65

Good find. I scanned my system and don't have cool web search, but it's scary anyway. Thanks, Frenchie.

star882

Why don't they just outlaw spyware?

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Originally Posted by A friend of mine who has a Linux kernel named after his girlfriend.

If I was VirtualBox, I could load my virtualization module into Hannah and boot up another kernel in the same address space.

Frenchy

In Canada a new law is in place as a first step to fight it.

Ecks

right on...thx for the link. I get extremely paranoid about spyware. Thankfully my system is safe.

darus67

Originally Posted by star882

Why don't they just outlaw spyware?

Making things illegal does not make them go away.

jpmarth

Originally Posted by star882

Why don't they just outlaw spyware?

They did.

Speeding is not legal, but people still do it. Murder is not legal, but people still do that as well.

Making a law against something does not stop it from happening. In some cases it even increases the frequency.

Laws are pointless if they can't be enforced.

tropicallie

Thanks, Frenchy. Great article.

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fishwood

Originally Posted by jpmarth

They did. Speeding is not legal, but people still do it. Murder is not legal, but people still do that as well. Making a law against something does not stop it from happening. In some cases it even increases the frequency. Laws are pointless if they can't be enforced.

It was made illegal to post on aximsite and all thats done has increased the frequency

jpmarth

Originally Posted by fishwood

It was made illegal to post on aximsite and all thats done has increased the frequency

No no no. Re-read Star's post and my response. Spyware was made illegal, not posting on Aximsite.

JMJSelect

All the computer literate people should spam the spammers non-stop. Thats how you could stop spamming, turn the tables on em

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kevinseise

Originally Posted by JMJSelect

All the computer literate people should spam the spammers non-stop. Thats how you could stop spamming, turn the tables on em

I am not a computer genius, but I saw this one listed in PCWorld or CNET I think. http://www.bluesecurity.com/ has a fight back method that just chews up the spammer's bandwidth. I guess it is similar to the Lycos screen saver antispam tool that was out a few months ago.

Also forthe website developers out there, check out WPoison which generates fake addresses for the crawlers out there. http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/

star882

It'd be nice if someone made a "fake spyware against spyware". It should pretend to be a key logger or something like that and give the spyware creators pseudo random junk.
BTW, I just installed the bluesecurity client. Let's use the power of distributed computing to fight spam!

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Originally Posted by A friend of mine who has a Linux kernel named after his girlfriend.

If I was VirtualBox, I could load my virtualization module into Hannah and boot up another kernel in the same address space.

aximbigfan

at least it wassnt wifi..


chris

Cimmerian-Ken

I'm using Blue Security. Haven't seen that much of a reduction, but I am trying to flood....er forward them as much spam as possible.

Also Blue Security is a anti-spam, not anti-Spyware.

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