Spyware: really out of control right now

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri May 31, 2002 1:55 am

My alarm clock just died. I have to wrap the cord around itself very tightly to get the electrical connection made. It was old, so no big deal. I figured that someone must have written a program to play an MP3 at a certain time. Therefore, my computer could be my alarm clock.

Wakemeup (now called Banshee Screamer) is a program that will do just that. Well, right on. It's, what, ten lines of code? At time x, play MP3 y. Dealing with different days and scheduling or whatever could be a task for advanced players, I guess. Well, in this very app is frigging spyware -- Onlook! A guy couldn't code up a simple alarm clock without attaching leech programming to it? WTF?

As it stands right now, every time I go to download some kind of Windows app, I place its name in a Google box along with the word "spyware" and see what I find. More often than not, up comes some results. Baffling. But apparently there is a need for a Windows alarm clock that will not report back on you. (I know you can ultimately use Task Manager, but I was hoping to get something with a GUI -- it's 2:50am and I need to be up by 8:00 am.

Jack Straw · Post by **Jack Straw** » Sat Jun 01, 2002 7:34 pm

Adaware, man, I'm telling you. It works like antivirus except for spyware. Word.

Jack Straw · Post by **Jack Straw** » Sat Jun 01, 2002 7:34 pm

Adaware, man, I'm telling you. It works like antivirus except for spyware. Word.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jun 03, 2002 11:42 am

Yep, Ad-Aware kicks ass.

chris · Post by **chris** » Mon Jun 03, 2002 11:43 am

Goddammit, this software logged me out. I wrote the last message.