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Best Spyware application?
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Join Date: May 2005
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What is the best Spyware prevention program for MACS? 
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Every spyware prevention program for Mac is equal to any other. They are also all equal to an empty text file, because there isn't any spyware for them to prevent.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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no one wants to harm the mighty mac, only peecee lamers, lol
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
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There are no reputable anti-spyware programs for Mac OS X. This is not entirely their fault, however, as there has only ever been one known spyware for OSX -a port of LimeShop- and even this is no longer used or distributed by the people who wrote it. With no known spyware, it's kind of hard to build up a reputation.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Little Snitch.
Catches apps that try to "phone home." (If you see daemons attempting to connect it's usually no big deal...you can see what they are for yourself)
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Originally Posted by Millennium
There are no reputable anti-spyware programs for Mac OS X. This is not entirely their fault, however, as there has only ever been one known spyware for OSX -a port of LimeShop- and even this is no longer used or distributed by the people who wrote it. With no known spyware, it's kind of hard to build up a reputation.
And even LimeShop wasn't *really* spyware, in the worst (i.e. Windows) sense. It just watched your surfing, and every time you clicked a "Buy related products at Amazon" link, it would change the cookie so that any profit generated by the link would be redirected to the LimeShop developers.
Immoral, nasty, and completely unacceptable, and definitely reason enough to never, EVER install any of their software whatsoever ever again, but not particularly harmful to the end user.
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