Posted on 09/25/2003 5:56:33 AM PDT by TroutStalker
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:49:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Three years ago, Patrick M. Kolla began noticing that some of the free software he had downloaded into his computer was sending him pop-up ads and keeping track of which Web sites he visited.
Most people who discover such invaders sigh and click away the ads. But the young German computer programmer and self-described anarchist wrote what he calls a "quick and dirty" software tool to purge computers of such unwanted programs. He called it Spybot Search & Destroy.
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It might be important if you could read it in the Constitution. But I've never seen it in the Constitution, although I don't have the official Supreme Court "Penumbral Emination Detector". Even if it were in there, it would be there to limit the actions of government, not of individuals or companies.
Other than that, it is a pretty powerful program, better than AdAware.
Really intuitive, isn't it? Not.
It's a great piece of shareware, that's for sure. Does an excellent job. I wrote the fellows address down and will send him a donation. Well worth it. Sorry about his politics, oh well.
Yeah, the flag for England. :-)
Anyway, I know better flags, and as long it´s not black-red-gold, I´m not going to follow it. ;)
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