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Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2004 01:19:57 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Spyware

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In <200402172327.2731771.22@scoug.com>, on 02/17/04
at 11:27 PM, jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net said:

>I just got a Mozilla window from an Enigma Software Group saying someone
>could install software on my box and keep track of everything I do.

True if you are running under WinXX.

>They
>offer a free program, spyhunters.exe (which works only with Windoze), to
>search for such programs that could provide info on Explorer use. The
>company calls these programs spyware and says they are undetectable by
>anti-virus software.

For the moment this is true. I suspect that the AV products will
eventually add support for detecting these things.

Steven

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