Noticed popups on sites that don't normally have them?(Esp if you use AudioGalaxy?)

Gambler

Scary stuff here:

http://www.poenews.com/inhouse/vx2.htm

Cake Fiend

Makes me laugh when I think of all the muppets who won't install kazaa "becuse of all the crap it installs with it"

Goodshape

VX2’s software also collects some information from online forms that you fill out. This information is automatically sent to VX2 in order to save you the time and trouble of submitting such information to us yourself. We have undertaken technical measures to make sure that VX2 never collects credit card numbers, account numbers or passwords. If such data data were, despite VX2’s best efforts, ever inadvertently collected VX2 would immediately purge such information from its database.

jaysus thats sh!t beyond words. I'm glad I'm using Opera.

strat

:rolleyes: spyware eh ? thats new :rolleyes:

Yurmasyurda

Spyware does not like me anyways this should be illegal, does anyone know why spyware is not illegal

po0k

It soon could be. There's a European Directive being drawn up and passed about the Parliment now regarding whether Cookies should be banned/restricted/monitored/something else, and that could lead to a more widely based legislation regarding any form of info-hunting software/mechanisms which may infringe on people's privacy.

Yurmasyurda

That's good news, I absolutely hate spyware and would like to send whoever designed/created it a few not so nice words via email, also those feckin pop up windows grrrrrrrrrr!

Dustaz

bloody hell. I always kinda ignored spyware as i dont really care who knows what porn/game/mansex sites i look at. Copy any forms i fill out however is a whole different ball game, that actually worries me.

MiCr0

get Ad-Aware
it checks for spyware and adware

leeroybrown

A spyware blocker would be the perfect spyware app ...

It could stop all its competitors while giving the user a false sense of secuity.

I hate spyware too. (And also those apps that get installed with something else and use your computer to sell you stuff)

_CreeD_

I recently installed a firewall on my system (just dial up) moreso to block outgoing traffic like this than incoming threats. Bahstids.