Yes, indeed. Very clever, these spyware authors. Working on a cleanup, found a spyware component, turned out to be part of Aurora, that the usual cleanup tools could find, but only could remove on restart. Restarted, and amazingly, it’s gone. Only not; it has a new name. Seems this one randomly renames itself on shutdown, […]
The results of the Federal Trade Commission’s spyware conference have been released. The workshop took place in Washington DC on April 19, 2004, and I wrote two position papers that were submitted as public comments 68 and 352.
There is a press release on the report: www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/03/spywarerpt.htm
The report itself is here: (68 page PDF): www.ftc.gov/os/2005/03/050307spywarerpt.pdf
Overall, everyone […]