AOL Offers Spyware Stopper... Just After They Started Offering Spyware

from the one-hand-gives...-the-other-sort-of-takes-away dept

Just a few weeks after saying that they're going to start bundling spyware/adware with their instant messenger product, AOL announces their latest anti-spyware application. While we've been complaining about anti-spyware from ISPs that just points out the spyware, AOL claims that this version will disable (though not delete) the spyware. I wonder if it will catch the spyware that AOL installs themselves.

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