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Spybot S&D News: Big fake warning (Feb. 5, 2004)

by Donna Buenaventura Feb 9, 2004 12:32AM PST

For the past two weeks, I got massive complaints from people who saw recommendations for Spybot-S&D on some TV show or heard about it on TV, and tried to go for it through the TV/radios website. Somehow, a bad link to Spybot-S&D is on its way and leading people to think that SpyHunter or SpyKiller would be the recommended Spybot-S&D. People downloading these two are forced to pay to remove spyware, and in the case of SpyKiller are even directed to us for support!

So my warning: please double-check what you've got before you pay anything!

Also, if you were mislead to SpyHunter or SpyKiller through Google AdWords, please contact Google. Google promised me some weeks ago they wouldn't do any more advertisement on my trademarked name "spybot", but I again receive complaints that they do, and this struggle with Google is going on for 4 months now.

http://spybot.safer-networking.de/index.php?page=news&detail=2004-02-05

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