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Microsoft/Claria Shenanigans
by Acidus at 9:49 am EDT, Jul 7, 2005

A post on BroadBand reports by Eric Howes is reporting that a number of Claria programs are set to a default action of “Ignore” in Microsoft Antispyware.

What this means is that while Microsoft Antispyware will still find Claria adware, in most cases, it will have a recommended action of “Ignore” (versus “Quarantine” or “Remove”). I'm not talking cookies, I'm talking the actual adware programs.

How "Soylent Green" is this shit?

-Microsoft makes a technology (ActiveX) with a bad/user-confusing security model which fosters spyware/adware installations.

-Microsoft makes a rather crappy web browser, whose crufty 1997 era security concepts allows said technology to easily and unsuspectingly be installed in the first place

-Microsoft then creates software to find and remove the very adware their products allows to exist! They graciously make this product free (for now?).

-Microsoft is in serious talk to *BUY* one of the companies that makes money off *INFECTING* people with said technology.

-Microsoft modifies its spyware/adware detection tool so that tool by default *IGNORES* the spyware/adware product of the very company it wants to buy.


 
 
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