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Friday, April 29, 2005

People being responsible, it's a good thing

Looks like some intelligent people are finally stopping the spyware baboons. CNET, parent company of Download.com, is banning all spyware, adware, dungware from their site. They have responsibly taken a NO TOLERANCE stance towards these creeps that are busy infesting our machines. Hoorah CNET! Please click on the above link and read Scott Arpajian's letter. If you agree with this stance, please email it to your Congresspeople.

"New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued a major Internet marketer Thursday, blaming it for secretly installing software that delivers nuisance pop-up advertisements and can slow and crash personal computers. Shares of the company, Intermix Media Inc., fell 83 cents, or 17 percent, to close at $3.97 on the American Stock Exchange." This is the lead for a great story from AP over at Newsday.com. Hoorah Attorney General Spitzer!!

Next, let's get Claria, CoolWWWSearch, etc. Orcs they are, all of them!

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
-Albert Einstein

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