Re: Frightening Spyware Story

"smackedass" <> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I recently reformatted/reinstalled '98 onto a customer's computer,
installed
> Ad-aware, got the defs, checked cnn.com and a few other sites just to
check
> connectivity, just for giggles ran Ad-aware, found 9 instances of spyware,
> in just one day.

How does AdAware decide what is spyware and what isn't? Could it pick up on
a line of code or script and think it's spyware whereas it in fact is not,
much in the same way that one anti-virus program may flag a file as infected
when others may have passed it as safe.

Spammy Sammy

ad-aware detects many cookies as adware, so unless you set your IE to block
cookies, it will always tell you that you have adware
"Spammy Sammy" <> wrote in message
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>
> "smackedass" <> wrote in message
> news:Q23_d.5547$ nk.net...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently reformatted/reinstalled '98 onto a customer's computer,
> installed
>> Ad-aware, got the defs, checked cnn.com and a few other sites just to
> check
>> connectivity, just for giggles ran Ad-aware, found 9 instances of
>> spyware,
>> in just one day.
>
> How does AdAware decide what is spyware and what isn't? Could it pick up
> on
> a line of code or script and think it's spyware whereas it in fact is not,
> much in the same way that one anti-virus program may flag a file as
> infected
> when others may have passed it as safe.
>
>

Jamco