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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:36 pm    Post subject: how is yahoo anti spy? Reply with quote
Yahoo! has released a new toolbar with antispy. I just wanted to know if anyone has downloaded it yet and how it works.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
moved to correct forum
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I haven't tried it because I don't need it, but it appears to check out OK here:
http://www.spychecker.com/software/antispy.html
scroll down a bit Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 8:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
What follows is an artical during my own ongoing research throughout the Internet:

By Matt Hicks
June 1, 2004
Yahoo Plays Favorites with Some Adware
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1605579,00.asp

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...Dave Methvin, chief technology officer at PC Pitstop LLC, said he is concerned with Yahoo's contradiction in offering a spyware-fighting tool while also aligning with one of the biggest purveyors of adware programs. ...


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...PC Pitstop, a Dakota Dunes, S.D., company that runs a Web site for PC diagnostics, last year settled a libel lawsuit filed by Claria over its public criticism of Claria and its distribution methods.

"It's great that they're giving away a free anti-spyware toolbar," Methvin said of Yahoo. "I just wish that they wouldn't turn around and, with the other hand, hand Gator one-third of its revenue." ...

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