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Traduk · 08-03-2008, 16:37

According to Symantec.... Apropos is classified as Spyware with a high risk category. It supplies details on it's removal which are in essence very complicated. The damage it can cause is to put the CPU into a 100% usage state which for all intents and purposes stops any other function and hard resetting (power button crashing) is the only way out.

Of the four criteria listed the only one that escapes the total falsehood claims is the fact that users chose to or were duped into installing the thing. Are we going to be duped into the next generation exploitation.

The publisher of the Spyware is named as Peopleonpage and we are all now familiar who was responsible for that.

IMO this PR exercise is so crude and so filled with obvious get out of jail attempts that I get more concerned every time they put something in print.

08-03-2008, 16:37	#800
Traduk Inactive Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 312	Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797] According to Symantec.... Apropos is classified as Spyware with a high risk category. It supplies details on it's removal which are in essence very complicated. The damage it can cause is to put the CPU into a 100% usage state which for all intents and purposes stops any other function and hard resetting (power button crashing) is the only way out. Of the four criteria listed the only one that escapes the total falsehood claims is the fact that users chose to or were duped into installing the thing. Are we going to be duped into the next generation exploitation. The publisher of the Spyware is named as Peopleonpage and we are all now familiar who was responsible for that. IMO this PR exercise is so crude and so filled with obvious get out of jail attempts that I get more concerned every time they put something in print.