I would like to put this forward for discussion. Currently for two weeks I have been battling a silent install of a spyware product. (Yeah I went through a boring day and played a few online games where one did the install.
The question is I have spyware on my machine that pops up advertisements. One of the advertisement is for software to remove spyware. On a very thin line could this be considered extortion? The only thing that would make it not fit is that the advertisement does NOT come up and say “You have spyware on your machine and to get rid of it you can/must buy this product” At the least this is dishonest advertising. The spyware programs are prety well hidden and hard to get to but why can’t the law go after the advertisers? I think it is ethically wrong to advertise a product to solve a problem by way of that problem.
Also that spyware problem,
Adaware, CWShredder, Aboutbuster and a look at the logs using hijackthis have failed to find the files responsible for my Hijack.
Anyone have any thoughts on finding this.
(I even looked at the registry bypassing the Registry vulnerability of hidden keys by creating a long key string)
No reg entries, DLLs or ocx files on my machine that I can find are out of the ordinary.
THank you on both matters
Michael