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September 24, 2005
Stop rogue anti-spyware
There are some useful anti-spyware products out there, but there's also a lot of junk, and one or two that are actually spyware. You've got to be careful. Here's a useful site that alerts users to software that isn't what it pretends to be.
"Rogue/Suspect" means that these products are of unknown, questionable, or dubious value as anti-spyware protection.Some of the products listed on this page simply do not provide proven, reliable anti-spyware protection or may be prone to ridiculous false positives. Others may use unfair, deceptive, high pressure sales tactics to scare up sales from gullible, confused users. A very few of these products are either associated with known distributors of spyware/adware or have been known to install spyware/adware themselves.
Posted by cw at September 24, 2005 11:24 AM