[IP] URGENT -- Ad/Spyware defeat program...

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Richard Perlman <perl@lucent.com>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 14:23:52 -0700
To: dave@farber.net, ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Ad/Spyware defeat program...

URGENT:

I tried the software mentioned in the posting below.  It removed software
essential for Windows XP to boot!!  USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Richard

On 5/5/03 10:29 AM, "Dave Farber" <dave@farber.net> wrote:

> Since I have a mac, I could not try it, so... Djf
> 
> 
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> From: "Joseph C. Pistritto" <jcp@jcphome.com>
> Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 09:28:55 -0700
> To: dave@farber.net
> Subject: Ad/Spyware defeat program...
> 
> Dave,
>  This might be a good thing for the list.  A friend stumbled across this
> program, which finds something like 6000 different types of "spyware" user
> tracking programs and lets you know what's crawled into your registry so you
> can elminate it.   I ran it on my wife's machine after interaction with
> spyware caused Internet Explorer to become unusable on her machine.  It
> found over 500 of these things actually installed (that machine's been in
> use for about a year for general browsing and web email).  Eliminating them
> all made the machine run faster and more importantly, be usable again...
> 
>  http://security.kolla.de/
> 
> The best thing about it other than it's free (they'd like donations of
> course!), is that it lets you see whats there and decide if you want to keep
> any of it, before making any changes on your machine...
> 
> Thanks
>  -jcp-
> 
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