| Microsoft Downgrade Risk Rating for Claria Adware |
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| Written by Editor |
| Thursday, 07 July 2005 16:22 |
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Over the last few days however various new sites have been running with rumors of a pending sale of Claria to Microsoft, and this latest move has thrown petrol on the embers of the rumor fire.. Microsoft when asked about the change in the classification would not comment on it or the rumors of a pending buyout of Claria. So what does this mean, well basically if Microsoft buy Claria expect more ‘legitimized spyware being installed on your Windows PC by WindowsUpdate, more adverts and pop-ups when browsing the Internet with Internet Explorer and generally your computers getting owned left and right. What can you do, well first un-install Microsoft AntiSpyware replace it with another AntiSpyware product from a more reputable vendor. If you can remove Windows from you PC and replace with something else. If simply put if Microsoft buys Claria expect more Spyware not less. The change in the signatures was detected by the spyware researcher Eric Howes here in a report on Broadband Reports. Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites          |
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