What exactly is Spyware?

[EvanFerguson]

And what's it do to your computer?

How do you know if a prgram is spyware and how can you get rid of it?


I heard Limewire is spyware, anyone......??


Thanks

 

[John]

http://www.lavasoft.de/aaw/index.html

 

[EvanFerguson]

meh? this seems to be and anti-ad program...... is spyware related to ads only?

 

[John]

Please read the information contained on the page. :Q

 

[EvanFerguson]

I may be blind or plain stupid or whatever but I read the FAQ and Main Page of the site......I saw a few refrences to "spyware" but from what I can decipher, it only means something about advertisments.....?

 

[EvanFerguson]

I found this from google:
Spyware: Spyware is ANY SOFTWARE which employs a user's Internet connection in the background (the so-called "backchannel&quot without their knowledge or explicit permission.

Silent background use of an Internet "backchannel" connection MUST BE PRECEDED by a complete and truthful disclosure of proposed backchannel usage, followed by the receipt of explicit, informed, consent for such use.

ANY SOFTWARE communicating across the Internet absent these elements is guilty of information theft and is properly and rightfully termed: Spyware.



but what does this mean exactly?

 

[John]

<< but what does this mean exactly? >>



It means get the program on the page I linked you to. LOL !

 

[Shudder]

hehehe

Spyware is bad mmkay?

I just did audiogalaxy for the heck of it.. It mentions all this crap about webhancer and that you should use add/remove to get rid of it. So I did.

But it's still there! AND some of the dll's are still running because they can't be deleted by adaware (this is after uninstalling and rebooting). Bleh, at least zonealarm stops it from dialing out.

 

[syzygy]

you uninstall and then comb through the registry to delete any leftover keys. that should permanently remove all vestiges of the spy prog.