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To: akpirate who wrote (38561)	12/31/2003 7:15:02 AM
From: thecow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

SAHAgent.exe answersthatwork.com "Golden Retriever from ShopAtHomeSelect.com. Software which gathers and aggregates the user’s Internet browsing behaviour and sends it to ShopAtHomeSelect servers. An extract from ShopAtHomeSelect.com’s Privacy Policy on 2-Nov-2003 : ".....ShopAtHomeSelect.com may also collect certain information online and offline deriving from your navigation of ShopAtHomeSelect.com and our Affiliate Merchants, including but not limited to the number and type of offers you have responded to and completed, so that we can make future relevant and personalized offers to you. ShopAtHomeSelect.com uses cookie technology to understand general information on site traffic trends such as most frequently visited pages or Affiliate Merchants. This information is captured on an aggregate basis, is not specific to individual users, and enables ShopAtHomeSelect.com to continually improve our Web site content and navigation.". Golden Retriever is installed mainly by file sharing programs (for example Grokster at some point in 2003). Recommendation : Not only is this what we call spyware since it transmits information from your PC, but worse the Privacy Policy does not clearly enumerate everything that gets transmitted from your PC. And that is not all : this is badly behaved software which can be catastrophic for 56K modem users as it often completely ties up the Internet connection while at the same time generating endless disk accesses. Remove ShopAtHomeSelect through the "Add/Remove Programs" icon in the Control Panel and then check if there are any remaining entries in Starter – if there are, delete them."