Please don't tell me its so....

ghettocomp · Jul 8, 2005

I just heard that microsoft is about to acquire Claria?
creators of the dreaded spyware: Gator

from Slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/07/1234217&tid=158&tid=172&tid=201

Windows AntiSpyware Downgrades Claria Detections

Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 07, @09:23AM
from the convenient-timing dept.
accihap writes "A week after word leaked out that Microsoft was negotiating an acquisition deal with Claria (See recent /. coverage), spyware researchers have noticed that the Windows antispyware application has downgraded Claria's Gator detections and changed the recommended action from 'quarantine' to 'ignore.' Screenshots of the new default settings."

This means that Microsoft will now really be as bad as everyone thinks it is.

tenchi86 · Jul 8, 2005

Not entirely true. We will have to wait and see but as of right now this just means one less spyware writer out there.

Please don't tell me its so....

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