[martin_fierro]

Adaware does a pretty good job of identifying and removing Spyware.

[toupsie]

Sounds like a good reason to switch. I never have to deal with this garbage on my computer or waste my time trying to find it and remove it.

[Chi-townChief]

bttt

[GingisK]

Man, they must be bored stiff!

[meadsjn]

bump for later reference.

It's been rumored that one can make enough money from spyware to finance a run for the US Senate.

[Cicero]

Lavasoft Ad-Aware is definitely recommended to check and clean your computer--and it's free. Some of these spywear programs not only report back on you, but can crash your computer if they try to go on-line while you are doing something else. Gibson's OptOut was a nifty little program, but he stopped developing it after Ad-Aware got ahead of the game.

[KentuckyWoman]

A be careful what you download PING!!

[RadioAstronomer]

Read this link. There are programs that find stuff AdAware does not. BTW (all free)

http://www.wilders.org/spyware.htm

[DemoSmear]

For music file sharing folks, Winmx is a good choice. No bundled spyware, no ads, no BS.

[WIMom]

Free Republic is funded solely by donations from readers.
Donations and official correspondence should be mailed to:
Free Republic, LLC, PO Box 9771, Fresno, CA 93794

Support Free Republic by secure credit card.

Send PayPal direct to JimRob@psnw.com

Thank you Registered!

[rdb3]

Dark side of the Net (they re spying on your computer - and you)

Uhhh, no they're not. They're trying to be sure. But their failing.

Double proxies squash this nonsense. Plus you never install warez which have spying trojans built in.

[E Rocc]

It's not the first time that KaZaA has secretly installed unwanted software. Late last year, the Australian-owned software company was embroiled in a scandal in the Net community. As part of the install process for KaZaA's eponymous file sharing software, an extra application called ClickTillUWin was surreptitiously forced on to the user's computer.

Kazaa Lite is Kazaa without Cydoor or the Brilliant Digital junk (which actually acts more like a virus than anything else).

Audiogalaxy's supposedly clean right now. I run Adaware pretty regularly. BTW, if you use adaware don't delete the spoof DLL from Kazaalite...Kazaa looks for it when you log on.

-Eric