Does anti-spyware software always work to your benefit?
CNET reporter Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache recently conducted an interesting survey among 13 anti-spyware vendors. They asked that, if federal investigative authorities installed spyware on the machines of suspected wrong-doers, would the anti-spyware companies silently go along? In other words, if any of those suspects used the company’s anti-spyware software, would that software not alert them as to the existence of the law enforcement’s spyware? The answers he found may have been largely good news for the nefarious users of anti-spyware software, and largely bad news for the law enforcement agencies. But like Gopal’s explanation a year before, the answers remain curiously ambivalent overall.
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