While it can be argued that it's the users fault that they get these programs in the first place. It's like adding a key to the keyboard between the g and the h, with the promise that if you accidentally hit that key, your computer is going to need to be reformatted to fix the error, unless you're nearly an expert at using it - accidentally hitting that key means that some company is going to cost you many hours of your time to fix the problems it causes.
I think the problem is just as great or greater than problems of spam mail and unwanted phone soliciations. I can easily delete the spam mail. I can easily hang up the phone. But, these companies have made it next to impossible to fight their intrusion into our lives, and our property!
So, I rattled off an email to Senator Clinton. I hope many of you would start doing the same. I think that the lack of public outcry is a large reason why nothing is being done about this problem. (wouldn't a simple law stating that all software needs to have a clearly identified program associated with it that will completely remove that software?)
Unfortunately, there is no public outcry. (While Anandtech is a major forum, #11, it's still just a drop in the bucket. We can complain to each other all we want, but our voices aren't being heard.)
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