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Paul Wilders · Mar 24, 2002

The author from SpyBot S & D asked me to post his personal and final comment - which I applaud:

I didn't intend to bad-mouth LS, and I certainly didn't want to start the small war it has grown into. In fact, I always respected LS as the makers of a good competitor (until I saw how two of their people handled this question).

I connected the tomcoyote.com cookie to LS as multiple tries to access lavasoft.de were all routed to the tomcoyote mirror (I personally do take a repeated redirect as the 'homepage' itself); and I expect especially from security concerned people to select their mirrors with care. Before rousing any suspicions, I searched for a privacy link there first, but couldn't find one on the main page, faq or under 'more resources' (especially not the one Coyote posted; should I save the pages now to have a prove later?).
I suspected it of tracking as there were 4 urls inside the cookie file, and it was much larger than those of other forums i compared it with (as I already wrote, even though Ann seems to not have read this).
As I wasn't quite sure about it, and couldn't image any intended misuse, I wrote to one of my testers, Fred, to look wether he had the same cookie, and what it's contents was. Maybe Fred was a bit over-eager and posted the questions at the LS forum - with a provocing subject, but a valid question (sorry that I have no copy of it). On all other forums I visit it is common to answer offending topics with a short notice and closing it; keeping it another day online so the offender has a chance to see and knows to do better the next time. IMO that's the way support should work.
But after the second wordless removal, I got curious, and after they hadn't pm'ed Fred in 24 hours after, I started this topic. I didn't send an email for two reasons. One: I didn't think I would get a private answer after public questions were ignored (even deleted). Two: I thought a public question would show that I _want_ the opinion of other (neutral) people _before_ calling it a spy. If I wanted bad-mouthing, I would have done it somewhere else where they wouldn't have noticed. Or I would have written the style Ann did.

I apologize to everyone who has misunderstood my initial posting as bad-mouthing. I'm sorry I haven't been at home (many witnesses ) to make things clear before they got out of control. I certainly didn't want any bad blood!
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Thread closed - for good this time

regards.

paul

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