Should Spyware be treated like a virus

cj · 05-05-2004

KK who said they were targetting webmasters specifically? I didn't see that post?

Our point is that we, as well as the general public of computer users, have been caused problems by these various forms of spyware. We are using ourselves as an example of a group of people who should have enough knowledge NOT to be effected by these - and yet we are.

Sure, customers are bloody sucking free searching bastards - but some of them buy stuff. I used the example yesterday - my parents stopped using their computer due to it not working the way they needed it to. How many others do the same?

Its one thing to not give your surfer a free massage & footrub when they surf on in, but when a small group of companies is trying to get a monopoly over all surfers by doing something underhanded - therefore making less customers for us - what would you expect us to do? Bend over and say 'come on in hooper'?

05-05-2004	#22
cj Members Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Down Under Posts: 5,202	KK who said they were targetting webmasters specifically? I didn't see that post? Our point is that we, as well as the general public of computer users, have been caused problems by these various forms of spyware. We are using ourselves as an example of a group of people who should have enough knowledge NOT to be effected by these - and yet we are. Sure, customers are bloody sucking free searching bastards - but some of them buy stuff. I used the example yesterday - my parents stopped using their computer due to it not working the way they needed it to. How many others do the same? Its one thing to not give your surfer a free massage & footrub when they surf on in, but when a small group of companies is trying to get a monopoly over all surfers by doing something underhanded - therefore making less customers for us - what would you expect us to do? Bend over and say 'come on in hooper'?