Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th Aug 2005 12:20 UTC, submitted by bsnipes
Researchers from a little-known security software company named Sunbelt Software have seemingly uncovered a criminal identity theft ring of massive proportions. According to one of their employees, Alex Eckelberry, during the course of one of their recent investigations into a particular Spyware application - rumored to be called CoolWebSearch - they've discovered that the personal information of those "infected" was being captured and uploaded to a server.
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"I wish i could shoot the person at Microsoft who thought it would be a good idea to make all users admin by default on Windows Home Edition. Stupid dumbass."
Careful. Billy may not like what you have to say. <joke>
Seriously. How many users beyond system administrators, who have been doing this a while and doing it properly, as-well-as advanced power users know how to properly set up a 'proper' M$-based system. Most users just run the default OEM install.
This whole issue boils down to user activity and criminal business.