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Subject: Re: Beware of Spyware and Improve Perfomance. What I found...

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 08:51:19 03/23/00

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On March 22, 2000 at 23:13:42, Aaron Tay wrote:

>On March 22, 2000 at 16:46:47, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>On March 22, 2000 at 09:26:36, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>
>>>Now I am better protected that a heavy tank. But, just
>>>yesterday, this guy showed to me another nuisance, that is, how spyware >>material is spreaded in our computers by so many freeware programs, some of >>them very popular and good in his area.
>
>>>You will not be dissappointed, although prepare yourselves to lose some of >>that freeware troyan horses that simply does not run if you does not let them >>to  put his eggs.
>
>
>Are you implying in any way that some of the free/shareware chess programs are
>trojan horses?
>
>Hmm..Popular and good sharware , (Crafty?,Goliath?)
>
>So were any chess programs found to be trojan horses?


No no and no. Not chess freeware, but kind of utilities like Go zilla and
others.
Fernando



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