[Coco] Spy Sweeper vrs Portal-9

[Roger Taylor]

At 05:53 PM 4/26/2005, you wrote:
>ATT.NET is promoting WebRoot Spy Sweeper for the AT&T service. If you 
>choose to use this program be careful about removing or quarantining what 
>this program classifies as spyware.
>
>Portal-9 has the unhappy distinction of being classed as an exact match 
>for the trojan, Kitten Free Sex Dialer, based on the Windows registry 
>entries. No joke!
>
>At least you can tell Spy Sweeper that it made a mistake.


Haha. This comes as no surprise to me.  Every Spyware program I've tried 
not only marks good software as bad, but many times marks a lot of Windows 
components as well.  The latest one I tried has the typical disclaimer: use 
at your own risk.  Btw, Portal-9 uses no registry entries at all and no 
internet connections.  It's just an IDE.  :)

I also got a message from Jim Cox saying something about AdAware had tagged 
the cookies used by the CoCo Cafe system??  This baffles me beyond 
all.  The CoCo Cafe uses 2 cookies (your nickname, and your session 
ID).  These two peices of information help keep your page refreshes working 
so you don't get kicked out of the room, but nothing more.  I am still 
wondering about this, Jim.  :-/




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Roger Taylor