Here at work I am being approached by people (incl IT General Managers) to help sort out problems on both work & home pcs regarding Spyware. The secretary of one of the company's divisional managers had also approached IT to help her deal with out of control pop-ups. Thus far AdAware has been able to achieve the best results & SpyBot & others a close 2nd.

I would like to use your write-up (suitibly atributed & slightly modified) for use to distribute to our own IT & other user areas.

Thanks for making it available.

Cheers

Doug
(Daughter of one of our IT GM's had her PC so choked up with pop-ups that dad had decided to re-install OS but had talked to me 1st - AdAware cleaned it up but Dad also had to suggest to daughter to be far more careful (like her sister) of free downloads & emails)

When it came to attribution I realised that I didn't actually know your
full name so made a big presumption & said provided by an 'IT friend'.

I asked the GM applicable, this morning, what he thought of it and was he going to release it to the company - over 4500 people.

He said yes it was excellent but just at the moment we have the auditors in and are having to deal with the issue of policy on downloading software so yes we want to use this excellent write-up, but 1st we want to resolve the matter of company policy on this downloading of software.

Because of my additional role as security advisor, I agree with the approach.

When the deed gets done I will let you know and will let you know peoples reactions.

Cheers Doug