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RawAlex 10-25-2006 08:31 PM

Spyware costs online brokerages
 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061025/...ges_fraud_dc_1

It's getting to the point where people are going to stop using the internet for anything important.

Spunky 10-25-2006 08:34 PM

I can see that happening quite easily..many people are paranoid to do online banking already..They need to stiffen the penalty's for that shit..like drastically

squishypimp 10-25-2006 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spunky (Post 11156447)
I can see that happening quite easily..many people are paranoid to do online banking already..They need to stiffen the penalty's for that shit..like drastically

but who will enforce it? unlike poker, there is really no means to kill spyware programs and no government can police it.

Dagwolf 10-26-2006 12:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by squishypimp (Post 11156798)
but who will enforce it? unlike poker, there is really no means to kill spyware programs and no government can police it.

Some spyware is definitely worse than others...

aico 10-26-2006 12:06 AM

Buy a Mac, problem solved.

darnit 10-26-2006 12:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aico (Post 11157273)
Buy a Mac, problem solved.

or use firefox w/a good anti-virus program.

hydro 10-26-2006 12:55 AM

They need to go after the advertisers, i'm sure that if I tried to advertise for profit on a bus that was stolen and I knew it was stolen but advertised anyway they would find something to charge me with.

V_RocKs 10-26-2006 01:11 AM

This isn't spyware... it is keylogging and trojaning the computers of surfers...

Has nothing to do with "legitimate" companies.


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