Evilest Of Evil Spyware Winning The War

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Latest Spyware Even More Evil

Latest Spyware Even More Evil 04/30/2004 01:32 PM
Last year we wrote about how some fairly evil spyware called Xupiter was making the rounds, installing itself without alerting the user, changing homepages and generally causing a nuisance. Well, it appears things are getting even worse. Wired News is now reporting on an even more evil piece of spyware called CoolWebSearch that does all of the above plus more. It will disable your ability to visit websites that tell you how to remove it. It disable certain firewalls. Plus, it appears to get constant updates for itself. It's gotten to the point where some who have ended up with it say their computers have become useless.

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

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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

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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.

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.

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.

Winning is everything

Winning is everything 07/27/2004 07:48 AM
Bill Clinton's impassioned paean to John Kerry caps a day of Democratic unity -- and fires up a party determined to wrest back the White House.

Are we winning?

Are we winning? 05/10/2004 02:43 PM
Internation al Terrorism at a 35 year low, says U.S. Department of State. So - does that mean that the war on terror is being won? (via Anxiety Culture)

Winning is everything?

Winning is everything? 05/24/2004 12:25 PM
"A reversal of soldiers' fortunes" describes how the first solider to be court-martialed for Abu Ghraib is greeted as a hero, while the soldier who brought these activites to light is treated as a villain.

Philosophy of Winning

Philosophy of Winning 02/10/2004 02:50 AM
Is winning a .99¢ song really a win if the Pepsi cost $1.19?

The bad guys are winning

The bad guys are winning 12/04/2003 06:07 AM
USA Today Dec 4 2003 5:06AM ET

A Winning Domain Name

A Winning Domain Name 07/07/2004 04:18 PM
WebDevInfo Jul 7 2004 8:33PM GMT

"Winning Argument"

"Winning Argument" 06/22/2004 04:03 AM

Winning by meditation

Winning by meditation 12/29/2004 08:44 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Dec 30 2004 12:32AM GMT

winning categories

winning categories 01/26/2004 05:20 PM
a list of winners .. Golden Globes .. winners

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Winning Argument

Winning Argument 07/14/2004 10:23 AM
When you’re a liberal and you’re in an argument with a conservative, here’s how you win .. Ammunition for debates with Conservatives

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The RIAA Is Winning

The RIAA Is Winning 01/07/2004 04:44 PM

Crackdown May Be Slowing Music Downloads: I know I don't download anymore. You know they're on the winning side when they don't make the news much anymore.

The recording industry's legal onslaught against Internet song-swappers appears to be having its desired effect. The percentage of Americans who download music online has been sliced in half, according to a report released Sunday.

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We are winning the war on Terror? Not.

We are winning the war on Terror? Not. 04/16/2005 02:55 PM
Don't like what the annual report on International Terrorist activity says? Just kill it--forever (never mind that the law requires it) -- The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered. ... other current and former officials charged that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's office ordered "Patt erns of Global Terrorism" eliminated several weeks ago because the 2004 statistics raised disturbing questions about the Bush's administration's frequent claims of progress in the war against terrorism. "Instead of dealing with the facts and dealing with them in an intelligent fashion, they try to hide their facts from the American public," ...

(Previous post on their lying report on 2003's incidents here)

I Told You We're Winning

I Told You We're Winning 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
I think we can definitely say the terrorists did not win if the current momentum continues and gay marriage is...

Winning with Imagination

Winning with Imagination 06/23/2004 03:41 PM
Some day, a blind person may better understand what's around him or her, even in a city or neighborhood never before visited.

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.

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.

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".

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...

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."

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.

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...

Die You Evil Bug

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

Dell, Cisco Can't Win for Winning

Dell, Cisco Can't Win for Winning 05/13/2004 09:16 PM
TheStreet.com May 14 2004 1:06AM GMT

Coach's Winning Results

Coach's Winning Results 08/03/2004 02:18 PM
The leather goods maker posts a favorable report and raised guidance for the future.

IHT: Saddam's people are winning the war

IHT: Saddam's people are winning the war 07/27/2004 04:30 AM
an interesting take on the Iraq War .. Saddam's People Are Winning the War

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Winning over the file sharers

Winning over the file sharers 04/06/2005 06:23 PM
ZDNet Apr 6 2005 9:08PM GMT

CoolWebSearch is winning Trojan war

CoolWebSearch is winning Trojan war 06/29/2004 05:37 AM
Programmer bows out

Puppies Are Winning the Dogfight

Puppies Are Winning the Dogfight 07/15/2004 10:06 AM
Stodgy old airlines must leave the U.S. to remain in business.

For Edwards and Dean, Winning May Not Be
All

For Edwards and Dean, Winning May Not Be
All 02/11/2004 03:00 PM
Senator John Edwards and Howard Dean are positioning themselves to achieve a degree of influence at their party's convention in Boston and in the writing of the party's platform.

Savvis Makes Winning Bid for C&W USA

Savvis Makes Winning Bid for C&W USA 01/23/2004 04:13 PM
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