Re: The spyware that loved me

2004-04-12 Thread Scott Weeks
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Sean Donelan wrote: : If even well-informed people do this, and can't fix their systems, what : hope is there for the typical Internet user? Absoultely none. Running a big eyeball network for the past year+ has given me real insight to the end user that I didn't get at a

The spyware that loved me

2004-04-09 Thread Sean Donelan
John Borland, a reporter for CNET News.com, made the mistake of loading some software on a Windows machine and hoping it was possible to restore the trustworthiness of a compromised Windows machine. In the end the CNET IT department took his computer away and re-installed a fresh image.