"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message news:356Yg.3062
To infiltrate and then what? Call home with what info it finds?
Most spyware is benign and just tracks marketing preferences so as to spam
you better.

Dangerous spyware can indeed phone home vital info you type
in, so as to rob you.
I've never seen a single thing come to me via Ebay. It's usually those
"freeware" sites that come complete with "free spyware" added in. That's
why I specified a *safe* place for whatshisname to download DVDShrink3.2.
The best way to be safe is to download nothing, past that, be SURE of your
source for "freeware".
The best source for getting spyware added is the "free anti-spyware" sites.
etc....
-W