Spyware search/destroy for Linux?

[Scott Holder]

Chad Robinson wrote:
> Spyware? What spyware? There's spyware for Linux?
> 
> =)
> 
> It's too much of a pain in the rear to be worth making spyware for 
> Linux, and the people you'd be targeting are the most likely to a) 
> discover your intentions and b) stop them. The Windows market is so 
> lucrative that it'll probably be a long while before you encounter this. 
> And because solution SOLVER people (like spyware search/destroy) follow 
> PROBLEMS you won't find spyware removal tools until there's spyware to 
> remove.
> 
> -Chad

There might be some worth to a Linux spyware remover capable of scanning 
and cleaning a Windows partition, like some Linux virus scanners do. 
There are some spywares that make it very difficult to remove while 
Windows is running, and last I checked there weren't any spyware 
removers for pure DOS (which is barely an option for NT4/2k/XP users 
anyway).

Actually, I'd probably trust such a program rather more than one running 
in Windows, you never know what little hidey holes and nooks stuff can 
be hiding in while Windows is running. I suppose it's neither here nor 
there as far as KDE is concerned though.

Scott Holder
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