"Sunbelt Security News" misrepresents SBS&D

[spy1]

http://www.sunbeltsecuritynews.com/?id=27

So I sent them an email:

" I have to take serious issue with "Freeware Not So Free" note by "J.S" in which he/she intimated that SpyBot Search and Destroy "becomes infected with spyware" - and that he/she presumably un-installed it because of that.

POPPYCOCK!

SBS&D does not "become infected with spyware" - period. The only possible way to get a copy of SBS&D that already contains malware is for an ignorant/un-informed user to download a "rogue" copy of the software.

IOW, by NOT getting it directly from the SaferNetworking site itself ( http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html ) on the download page ( http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html ) and checking the MD5 of the d/l you get against the MD5 of the d/l on that page.

I'm seriously disappointed in you for even publishing such tripe. I've been using SBS&D for over ten years - I've only used your firewall program for less than two. Guess which program I trust more? Pete Yevchak (spy1)"

YOU might want to drop them a line, too! Pete

[PepiMK]

Thank you for making us aware of this, Pete

Not sure what sounds worse - printing readers letters unreflected, or that the assumption that Sunbelt is reporting Spybot is infected might be true (well, viruses can infect /every/ file, but there's no difference between freeware or not there).

[tashi]

So I sent them an email:

" I have to take serious issue with "Freeware Not So Free" note by "J.S" in which he/she intimated that SpyBot Search and Destroy "becomes infected with spyware" - and that he/she presumably un-installed it because of that.

J.S apparently doesn't know his arm from his elbow.