From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 12:03:59 PST
At 9:13 -0800 2003-02-21, E. Bond Francisco wrote:
>I found an item in a CNET dispatch about spyware and adware aps:
>Get rid of them
>If you ask me, these apps, called adware or spyware, have no
>business being on anyone's desktop. That's why I'm pleased to share
>with you a new and completely free product that will remove them
>from your PC:
><http://www.cnet.com/software/0-806181-1204-20848563.html?tag=txt>Spybot
>Search and Destroy.
>
>As usual, it references PC's only. Does anyone know of comparable
>software that works for the Macintosh. I know very little about how
>SPYWARE and ADWARE work, and what they do, but I don't like the
>sound of it, for starters.
For a recent discussion on the Micronet list of 'adware' and 'spyware,' see:
http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/micronet/2002/0891.html
and
http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/micronet/2002/0892.html
'Adware' and 'spyware' programs targeting the Mac OS are much less
numerous than those targeting Microsoft Windows. The only program
I'm aware of which checks for such programs on the Macintosh is
MacScan, currently in beta:
Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
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