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Examples of Unfair, Deceptive or Devious Practices Involving Software
Introduction
The Consumer Software Working Group is concerned about a specific set of devious, deceptive or unfair practices that adversely affect consumers online. While the following list of examples is not nearly complete, it describes a series of activities and behaviors that the Group considers to be clearly objectionable.
1) Hijacking
The practices described in this section are objectionable to the extent that they enable an unaffiliated person to use the user's computer in a way that ordinarily would not be expected. This may occur through an unnoticed program consuming the user's computing resources or resetting a user's existing configurations without the user's knowledge, or through coercion or deception.
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Spyware Researchers Discover ID Theft
Ring
Introduction
Spyware researchers picking apart one of the more notorious spyware
programs have stumbled upon what appears to be a massive identity theft ring
hijacking confidential data from millions of infected computers.
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Beware Rogue Anti-Spyware Software
Introduction
There are millions of computers currently infected with spyware (software
that spies on you and collects data about you and your computer habits).
Consumers eventually discover they require help to banish these pesky programs
from their PC and they go looking on the internet for the best solution.
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What are Computer Spyware Programs?
Introduction
Computer Spyware is software that, once it's on your system, starts spying on
you in various ways. Typically taking on the appearance of software you might
like and use, spyware is generally downloaded from the internet and installed
onto your computer. Once installed on your computer, the malicious "spyware"
will record what you do, websites you visit, information you enter in to forms,
information about your computer, and send all the information it gathers back to
a marketing company. "There is no single piece of software on the market that can detect and
remove all spyware"
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