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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"Yes, it is. This solution has no equivalent in Windows."
Perhaps you have been living under a rock for the last 10 years but there is OSS software on Windows.
And there is non-OSS software on Linux.
Again, OSS is NOT a solution to the spyware problem. Just because there is no OSS malware at the moment does not mean there couldnt be or that there never will be.
The problem is not that spyware cant be identified, the problem is to make users aware of it and how it works. It helps little if the computing elite knows something is spyware if the big majority doesnt know and doesnt care.
"That is one solution - change the world & improve all the people in it."
"Or we could do it the actually achieveable way."
Because switching the entire planet to OSS and Linux is achieveable in the short term....
It's not a technical problem, it cant be solved by technical means.