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Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers

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alxmarcond

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Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers Vide
PostSubject: Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers   Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers Icon_minitime1March 19th 2008, 5:40 pm

Sears Holding Corporation, owner of Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Kmart, makes the pitch in an email sent to people shortly after they provide their address at Sears.com. Clicking the “Join” button invokes a dialog that requests the person’s name, address and household size before installing ComScore spyware that monitors every site visited on the computer.

Sears’ privacy statement does disclose this. Their privacy statement is 54 pages long, and the disclosure is on page 10.

Wow.

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SbuxBlaze

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Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers Vide
PostSubject: Re: Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers   Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers Icon_minitime1March 19th 2008, 5:41 pm

wow, I hate sears now D: they dont have anything anymore anyways. Best Buy and Circuit City are the place to go for electronics. and of COURSE the apple store wink
alxmarcond

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From : Clemson
OS : LFS, Win7 b.7000, OS X Leopard 10.5.6

Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers Vide
PostSubject: Re: Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers   Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers Icon_minitime1March 19th 2008, 5:42 pm

well, its not JUST electronics.... well i guess it is but its including everything online! i think this is INSANE
SbuxBlaze

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Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers Vide
PostSubject: Re: Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers   Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers Icon_minitime1March 19th 2008, 5:43 pm

alxmarcond wrote:
well, its not JUST electronics.... well i guess it is but its including everything online! i think this is INSANE

i know. sears is stupid anyways, we only have like one or two in LA.
alxmarcond

alxmarcond

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From : Clemson
OS : LFS, Win7 b.7000, OS X Leopard 10.5.6

Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers Vide
PostSubject: Re: Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers   Sears Admits to Loading Spyware on Windows Customers Icon_minitime1March 19th 2008, 5:48 pm

theres only on in the upstate and its in Anderson XD
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