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entwisi · 19-10-2006, 05:48

Busman, so 'some' software on that site may be considered 'adware, spyware, etc' did I miss something, SOME?????? i.e.not all, also consider this, you write software, you want it to make you some money but in this day and age people just copy it, crack it etc. so you put ads in and make it free. this would put it in adware bracket yet it is just another form of payment. As long as its up front about it I have no problem with that. We all suffer adware in other parts of our lives yet think nothing of it there. TV(except BBC of course) for example is a perfect example of adware that we put up with to save money.

People do seem to have taken Internet security from one extreme to the other. adware != bad in all cases. all it needs is a bit of common sense.
e.g. if you had taken the time to google you would have found that software all over the place not just at this site. searching for that and the term spyware yields no results apart from ironically the site I posted that also offers a spyware tool for download.

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entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: ringtones and bluetooth and mp3 stuff type question Busman, so 'some' software on that site may be considered 'adware, spyware, etc' did I miss something, SOME?????? i.e.not all, also consider this, you write software, you want it to make you some money but in this day and age people just copy it, crack it etc. so you put ads in and make it free. this would put it in adware bracket yet it is just another form of payment. As long as its up front about it I have no problem with that. We all suffer adware in other parts of our lives yet think nothing of it there. TV(except BBC of course) for example is a perfect example of adware that we put up with to save money. People do seem to have taken Internet security from one extreme to the other. adware != bad in all cases. all it needs is a bit of common sense. e.g. if you had taken the time to google you would have found that software all over the place not just at this site. searching for that and the term spyware yields no results apart from ironically the site I posted that also offers a spyware tool for download. __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures? Last edited by entwisi; 19-10-2006 at 07:45.