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Re: A Note on Viruses
Lynn,
Thanks for the heads up.
Ed
At 02:29 PM 12/4/2002 -0600, you wrote:
Symantec's monthly newsletter has warned about a new wrinkle in
address-book swiping. When one downloads software from the
Internet, one usually finds it necessary to agree to a set of
terms of agreement before being able to install the new program.
Symantec notes that some of these terms of agreement now include
your giving permission for a piggy-back program to take a copy
of your address book.
I suppose that so few people ever pay the authors of shareware
that some of them feel that it is a fair trade to allow the user
the use of the software in exchange for a saleable list of e-mail
addresses, and, in some cases, the permission clause has probably
been inserted into the terms of agreement without the owner's
knowledge or permission.
This makes little difference, however. Some of the major
anti-virus companies are now working on ways of detecting these
snakes in the fine print but, until they succeed in including
such detection in their programs, you would be well advised to
look over the terms of agreement closely before signing off on
them.
Lynn
Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523-0916
Author: DARKMOON: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War
Co-author: NORTH KOREAN ORDER OF BATTLE 1950-1953 (Dec, 2002)
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