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One always needs to wonder how much one can trust a company selling a security type product when that same company is also selling advertising and doing deals with spyware companies and in particular, entertainment companies. For example, how robust is MS' popup blocker gonna be when they're selling popup ads to customers on MSN? And what about Symantec choosing to have their software ignore the Sony rootkit, at Sony's request? What about DRM that spies on your usage and phones home?

Great column on this here:
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70802-0.html
Posted by: tic swayback   Posted on: 05/08/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Firewall is better in Vista  NonZealot | 05/08/06
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Just Curious  nikoli | 05/08/06
Empathizing  peculiarman1 | 05/10/06
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Okay....  DarkMidknight | 05/08/06
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Another Load Of BS  nikoli | 05/08/06
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Re: This just cracks me up  none none | 05/08/06
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Just buy a Mac ...  Reverend MacFellow | 05/08/06
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