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Originally posted by colinmacc
OK, big deal, so you're not spying anymore, but what the hell do you think you are doing by downloading executables to my PC without my express permission? Even if their code is harmless, what if someone hacks in to the adserver and sends us all a virus or a Trojan Horse?
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Did you ever run Napster? Napster could do this.
It seems strange to me that people have problems with what third-party components can do but never think that the actual software they're using could be insecure.
The same goes for all these complaints about what third-party components are capable of doing. Sure cydoor could be spying on you. It could also be deleting files from your harddrive. It could really be doing anything. But then again, so could the programs that this third-party components come bundled with.
I wonder when some developer is going to realize that they can avoid much of this spyware talk simply by statically linking third-party components (integrating them into the executable instead of linking to DLLs).