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Reclassification of spyware

We received a rather polite email today from cydoor to "please stop calling their product spyware. You can read the whole email in this article.. the part that amused me most is this:

In regard with your article, I would like to bring your attention to your categorization of our ad-serving technology as spyware#&46 I believe that this categorization is mistaken, and I would like to show you why. I would also like to request that you update your description of Cydoor to be a mild adware.


"Hi mom, how's your pc?"
"oh it has a mild case of adware.. I downloaded something for it"
"That's not bad then, it's only a *potentially unwated program*.."
"Yah, it's nothing, you should have seen the severe case of scamware ...'s computer had last week!"

Well then..

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Comments

Halarious. Absolutely halarious :)

-Chris

"A mild virus requiring relatively harmless antibiotics" is coming up next? What will the third mild thing be? A "child disease" that all computers are supposed to pass through before they are considered mature enough?

Absolutely hilarious, like the previous comment said :-)