[64499] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Kuhnke)
Sat Oct 25 09:59:25 2003
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From: Eric Kuhnke <eric@fnordsystems.com>
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I believe this has resulted in a few lawsuits from companies such as Gator,
which take offense to their "adware" being removed by the ISP... Of
course, 99% of the time it's installed via a "click-wrap" EULA for some 3rd
party software such as Kazaa. It would be just as easy to uninstall it via
another EULA for the ISP's custom dialup/PPPoE/PPPoATM/whatever client. :-)
> e. Remove spyware/trojans/remote access software
>
>And so on, through all the changes recommended by the Center for
>Internet Security (http://www.cisecurity.org/)
