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Evilest Of Evil Spyware Winning The War

Evilest Of Evil Spyware Winning The War 06/29/2004 12:11 PM
Someone I know recently got hit with CoolWebSearch the evilest of the evil new spyware products out there that seems to have one purpose, and one purpose only: to destroy your computer. While it may drive some pay-per-click ad money, CWS is so bothersome, that it can't really be that useful in generating money. In trying to fight it, one of the most useful tools out there has been a product called CWShredder. However, CWS has gotten ever more advanced, and the creator of CWShredder has given up, saying it's simply too much work to compete against CWS: "I simply do not have the tools to remove the latest variants. They are too aggressive or too complicated to allow for automated removal." Certainly not a good sign.

McAfee The Latest To Add Anti-Spyware

McAfee The Latest To Add Anti-Spyware 01/25/2004 07:29 PM

NAI's McAfee the latest to add
anti-spyware

NAI's McAfee the latest to add
anti-spyware 01/23/2004 06:30 PM
Network Associates Inc. (NAI) will become the latest security software maker to address the growing problem of stealth surveillance software known as spyware when it announces a new consumer product for locating and removing the applications on Monday.

Security Roundup - Latest Antivirus and
Spyware products!

Security Roundup - Latest Antivirus and
Spyware products! 09/21/2004 10:40 AM

Dismantling the Axis of Evil: A New
Battle for Control and Total Conquest Is
Underway - AirG Launches Art of Tyranny
- World’s Latest Mobile Multiplayer Game

Dismantling the Axis of Evil: A New
Battle for Control and Total Conquest Is
Underway - AirG Launches Art of Tyranny
- World’s Latest Mobile Multiplayer Game 03/14/2005 05:55 PM
After months in development AirG, the global leading in developing and distributing cutting edge multiplayer mobile entertainment applications, announces the launch of Art of Tyranny (AoT). This highly sought after game is now available through mobile operators in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. [PRWEB Mar 5, 2005]

Review: Advances make car-sharing easy
EBay latest to drop Microsoft's Passport
Phishing, spyware, o

Review: Advances make car-sharing easy
EBay latest to drop Microsoft's Passport
Phishing, spyware, o 01/02/2005 02:43 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Sat Jan 1, 12:25 pm GMT

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
Hear no evil, read no evil, speak drivel

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
Hear no evil, read no evil, speak drivel 04/16/2004 07:45 AM
Sidney Blumenthal: Bush's press conference shows just how ill-informed he is about Iraq 4/15 .. Hear no evil, read no evil, speak drivel .. piece

guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1192218,00.html
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Harnessing Evil for the power of...
well, less evil

Harnessing Evil for the power of...
well, less evil 06/05/2005 11:55 PM
There are days I think the $WORK_PROJECT is an exercise in extended programming irony. The parrot code my compiler generates for $WORK_LANGUAGE makes heavy use of continuations. Really heavy use of continuations, to the point where reports are taking (and discarding) three continuations per record plus another two or three per page of the output. For a language which doesn't have functions, blocks, or lexical variables, and whose idea of sophisticated control flow is goto or gosub to bare labels. Go figure....

Chris Abraham: Evil Man in Black and His
Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good
Guys

Chris Abraham: Evil Man in Black and His
Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good
Guys 04/12/2005 05:55 AM
Evil Man in Black and His Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good Guys .. Permalink

chrisabraham.com/2005/04/evil_man_in_bla.html
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Yahoo's Offers New Anti-Spyware Tool...
That Actually Finds Spyware

Yahoo's Offers New Anti-Spyware Tool...
That Actually Finds Spyware 08/05/2004 03:50 AM
It appears that Yahoo heard the backlash loud and clear a few months back when they released an anti-spyware tool that just so happened to skip over adware from Yahoo partners. The latest version, built on PestPatrol's technology will now default to notifying users of both "spyware" and what they consider to be "adware" and then give the user the choice of what to do. I haven't tested the product yet, but it sounds like they're moving in the right direction. It still makes you wonder what they were thinking in offering a purposely crippled offering. People know what spyware is, and telling them that spyware isn't spyware doesn't change how people feel about it. It also doesn't make them look kindly back at the company that provided them with the bogus anti-spyware tool in the first place.

Yahoo's Famed Anti-Spyware App Allows
Spyware From Partners

Yahoo's Famed Anti-Spyware App Allows
Spyware From Partners 06/02/2004 10:10 AM
We didn't write about Yahoo's new "anti-spyware" toolbar that they announced last week, because it seemed to receive plenty of hype, and there were no real reviews of how it worked. There are so many so-called anti-spyware applications out there that don't actually stop spyware and adware for fear of upsetting marketing companies or out of worries that actually stopping spyware may make some applications stop working (upsetting the user), that we figured Yahoo's anti-spyware app (hype and all) probably wouldn't be much to bother with. It certainly looks like that may be the case. eWeek is now reporting that Yahoo tries to dance the careful dance of not upsetting certain companies who threate n to sue people who call their application spyware. Of course, the situation is even more complex because Claria (who you probably know as Gator - despite their attempt to change their name to shake that spyware label) is also a partner of Yahoo. So, it's really not surprising that the default setting for Yahoo's anti-spyware app won't actually remove services like Gator or WhenU. Instead, Yahoo's spyware remover claims these programs are "adware" and will only remove them if you click and extra check box each time you run the program. In other words, once again, you can't trust a provider of anti-spyware software, because they're playing both sides of the fence: partnering with providers on the one hand, and then offering weak removal products on the other. If Yahoo were serious about removing spyware from the computers of users they would refuse to partner with companies that used surreptitious tactics to be installed on computers. Instead, they want to look good to users in the front, while letting in spyware/adware from partners through the backdoor.

Spyware Company Sues Utah Over
Anti-Spyware Law

Spyware Company Sues Utah Over
Anti-Spyware Law 04/13/2004 03:42 PM

AOL Offers Spyware Stopper... Just After
They Started Offering Spyware

AOL Offers Spyware Stopper... Just After
They Started Offering Spyware 04/22/2004 02:36 AM
Just a few weeks after saying that they're going to start bundling spyware/adware with their instant messenger product, AOL announces their latest anti-spyware application. While we've been complaining about anti-spyware from ISPs that just points out the spyware, AOL claims that this version will disable (though not delete) the spyware. I wonder if it will catch the spyware that AOL installs themselves.

Die You Evil Bug

Die You Evil Bug 06/09/2004 07:08 PM

Am I Evil?

Am I Evil? 06/25/2004 10:27 AM
Coincidence or contortion? Ivan Panin deciphered a numeric code in the Bible. Known as Gematria, the 'code' implies the Bible could not have been written without Holy assistance. Panin offered an open challenge for someone to create text using a similar pattern, yet no one was able to create one(nor tried).

However many people doubt the authenticity of the code though. The code is found in the same verses using different translations. It is also claimed that Panin manufactured his own translations to create this mathematical phenomenon.

Whether or not you believe, you can determine how good or evil any text or website is.

Do Be Evil

Do Be Evil 05/13/2004 02:15 AM
Google To Start Selling Banner Adverts From the that-didn't-take-too-long-department, Google's ad sales VP Tim Armstrong says Google will now start selling graphical banner adverts. One concession to their old mores is that, for now, the banner adverts will only appear on affiliated websites running their AdSense referral program (as does MeFi), and there is an opt-out. However... "We have no plans to show images on Google.com", said Mr. Armstrong "but we are not opposed to it".

Evil or Not Too Evil?

Evil or Not Too Evil? 04/14/2004 01:15 PM
Our order processor, eSellerate (part of MindVision) decided to add a new "feature" to our store called the eSellerate Download...

To Evil!

To Evil! 09/17/2004 12:36 AM
Danny O'Brien: To Evil! "How do you work out who the movers and shakers are in the free software hacking world? I have decided to evaluate those involved in our so-called industry in terms of a battle between good and evil."

IRC is Evil

IRC is Evil 05/06/2004 12:00 AM
Anytime there is a relatively new mode of communication, its blamed for all things conceivable. A NY Times article takes aim at IRC as a breeding ground for file sharing, child porn and, god forbid, hackers. It specifically takes aim...

More about evil-or-not

More about evil-or-not 03/23/2005 08:15 AM

Yesterday, late in the afternoon, I wrote a bit about evil, and how unfortunate it is that this word has entered discourse in the blogosphere. I think we can trace it back to the Google goal of not being evil, an idea that's run its course, and should be stricken from their corporate philosophy. Google is no more or less evil than any other company, has no basis to claim a moral superiority, and should openly cancel it. And if they won't remove the hex, let me offer a new law of the Internet, a corollary to Godwin's Law. "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of it becoming about evil approaches one." And I'd add, that the length of time is shorter, but the effect on discourse is the same. It stops all rational discussion immediately.

NYT says IRC is evil

NYT says IRC is evil 05/06/2004 04:36 AM

The New York Times has an article about how evil IRC is.

New York Times

Still, I.R.C. perhaps most closely resembles the cantina scene in "Star Wars'': a louche hangout of digital smugglers, pirates, curiosity seekers and the people who love them (or hunt them). There seem to be I.R.C. channels dedicated to every sexual fetish, and I.R.C. users speculate that terrorists also use the networks to communicate in relative obscurity.

Dvorak's ragging on chat and IM too.

Give me a break. Are people running out of new technologies to bash?

via Ross Mayfield

Oh That Evil IRC

Oh That Evil IRC 05/06/2004 02:53 AM
Admittedly, I haven't used IRC in about a decade, but I'm still a bit surprised to see the NY Times write up a whole article describing just how evil IRC is. After reading the article, you can almost count down the days before some politicians talk about investigating this "IRC thing." Is it my imagination or is IRC just a technology that can be used for chatting? Most of the article talks about all the terrible stuff that is done on IRC in a way that does its best to blame the technology. They practically apologize for the few times they try to mention non-evil things that IRC is used for, as if they can't believe that anyone would dare defend such an evil monstrosity.

SINA Evil?

SINA Evil? 07/28/2004 09:27 AM
Investing in China's risky, but if you hear no evil and speak no evil, maybe SINA can't be evil.

Rise of Evil

Rise of Evil 06/25/2004 06:43 PM
Project is up and running!

Evil Twin

Evil Twin 02/01/2005 08:35 PM

Evil Twin (via Dave Winer) Wi-Fi vulnerability is another example of typical boneheaded security designer's mindset: single-side authentication.  While Wi-Fi users have to identify themselves to protected Wi-Fi routers, routers don't have to identify themselves to the users.

In the Face of Evil

In the Face of Evil 09/07/2004 09:34 PM

Britt Blaser: Paying For Others' Sins. What do you do with the information that several hundred children have been killed or wounded to make a point?

Google: Be a Little Evil

Google: Be a Little Evil 12/30/2004 09:08 AM
Technology Review Dec 30 2004 1:14PM GMT

The Queen of All Evil

The Queen of All Evil 04/25/2004 08:52 PM
The Queen of All Evil .. new digs

qoae.net
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Possible Google IPO - Is it Evil?

Possible Google IPO - Is it Evil? 04/24/2004 03:54 PM
Search Engine Journal Apr 24 2004 8:09PM GMT

The New Mask Of Evil

The New Mask Of Evil 07/24/2004 02:21 PM
Rubies is showing off new mask of Darth Vader's helmet at Comic-Con. This should be out just in time for Halloween.

Evil geeks

Evil geeks 09/14/2004 02:49 PM
Cory Doctorow: Danny "Evil" O'Brien has written an hilarious column in (mock) celebration of the world's most evil geeks:

How do you work out who the movers and shakers are in the free software hacking world? For most of them, there's no income to be appraised, there's no stock market valuation to watch. What value can you give to these contributors, who work without care of reward, except maybe all those groupies hanging out at the stage door of the Sourceforge ftp servers?

Well, I guess you could review their software or something. Sadly, I suffer from a debilitating illness (which I shall not mention here) that tragically precludes me from doing actual research. So, instead, I have decided to evaluate those involved in our so-called industry in terms of what we all, I think, see it as.

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Spam is EVIL!!!!!!

Spam is EVIL!!!!!! 02/10/2004 02:47 AM
Some interesting results from the Transatlantic Consumer Dialog's survey on spam. 21,000 people responded, from 36 countries.


Perhaps the scariest one is that 52% number. Spam is becoming a serious drag on the Internet economy. Not just the direct time and resources it sucks up, but its indirect effects in discouraging people from using email and the Web.

Return of the evil Net

Return of the evil Net 04/19/2004 01:38 PM
A News.com stor y today includes the quote from Rocky Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City, explaining his opposition to a municipal broadband network:

This reminds me of the media coverage of the Internet around 1995.  A good percentage of the stories were focused on the dangers of online porn, privacy violations, and other threats the Net posed to truth and decency.  Sure, many of those issues were and are real.  But the tenor of the coverage suggested that the Net was a cesspool of filth, with harms exceeding its benefits. 

I thought we were beyond that point.  But now we seem to be back to a similar discourse, with a twist.  The threat is that if you give people better connectivity, they'll use it to -- gasp -- share files!  This is another example of the criminalization of intellectual property law that I discussed two posts ago.  It's also the epitome of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater." 

Labyrinth Of Evil

Labyrinth Of Evil 07/19/2004 03:03 AM
Next January, Del Rey Books will release Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil, a new novel that ties directly into the beginning of Episode III. With access to detailed information from Lucasfilm, author James Luceno details Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi's last mission together during the Clone Wars, as the Jedi track down Darth Sidious. The events in this novel will dovetail with the events in the third season of Cartoon Network's micro-series and Dark Horse's upcoming Obsession comic book series. Click on the thumbnail above for more details, including an early first look at the book's cover.

The Evil Spider mEn!

The Evil Spider mEn! 06/30/2004 06:09 PM
Spiderman as a villian! Just to keep the trend for the day going.. (Via I-mockery by way of Fark)

Storms of Evil

Storms of Evil 04/13/2004 08:35 AM
Pulling Source, and GPL

The Axis of Just as Evil

The Axis of Just as Evil 03/13/2003 10:25 AM
This made me laugh out loud. It's allegedly written by John Cleese, but it turns out that it originally came from Satirewire. "Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil," Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil," which they said would be more evil than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of in his State of the Union address. Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. "Right. They are Just as Evil...in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils... best at being evil...we're the best."

Sergey: Don't be evil.

Sergey: Don't be evil. 12/14/2002 08:15 PM
Wired: Google vs. Evil. Discusses Sergey Brin's role as the "moral compass" of Google, making sure they aren't evil....

Evil for dummies.

Evil for dummies. 03/19/2003 10:28 PM
Just in case you're not sure how to be evil... You can get help. 8 easy steps to help you become evil.
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