New powers for police to hack your PC

[Purple Dalek]

Possibly true. But I wonder if the Police would be able to sue for breach of copyright?

It gets better: as often as not the American plod outsources the installation to the ISP and people have found out by a call from their ISP's call centre that they're due to have it installed and would they please switch their computer on...

Another one I read about was a guy who was having problems changing his telco for a normal landline phone and essentially got told they'd installed a wire-tap on it, at police request, so it was difficult for them to move his account.

Nah, if I was a juror and I heard that the police had installed something I'd discount any evidence they got that way. There again we, the gathered congregation, work in IT, so we know as soon as they open a back door the bad guys will be in it as well within a few hours. Just wait and see for another Guilford type debacle to happen. Thinking on that we all visit this board and work in IT so probably on a list already.

[pmeswani]

It gets better: as often as not the American plod outsources the installation to the ISP and people have found out by a call from their ISP's call centre that they're due to have it installed and would they please switch their computer on...

Another one I read about was a guy who was having problems changing his telco for a normal landline phone and essentially got told they'd installed a wire-tap on it, at police request, so it was difficult for them to move his account.

Nah, if I was a juror and I heard that the police had installed something I'd discount any evidence they got that way. There again we, the gathered congregation, work in IT, so we know as soon as they open a back door the bad guys will be in it as well within a few hours. Just wait and see for another Guilford type debacle to happen. Thinking on that we all visit this board and work in IT so probably on a list already.

The police are allowed to wiretap a line if it is in the interest of national security or if they have obtained a warrant by the home secretary. Therefore if the wiretapping is accepted as evidence, you would have to consider it, regardless of your personal point of view.

[Purple Dalek]

The police are allowed to wiretap a line if it is in the interest of national security or if they have obtained a warrant by the home secretary. Therefore if the wiretapping is accepted as evidence, you would have to consider it, regardless of your personal point of view.

I don't have a problem with a wire-tap, per se, if they're only listening, but if they're injecting calls/information into a wire-tap, then I do have problems with any evidence they gather.

[Doggy Styles]

Not quite what I said. What McAfee do (and TrendMicro) to 3rd party Antispyware products is their perogatives. I moved to Kaspersky from TrendMicro (and not moved to McAfee as it is carpe) because Kaspersky is a better rated product. If a bill is passed through parliment, then there is nothing corrupt about getting some viruses whitelisted.

Sorry, corrupt is not quite what I meant.

Anyway, I was only asking regarding McAfee. I've never had a new app ask that I remove spyware before.

And McAfee does run like a dog, the interface is carpe, and their website is sometimes incomprehendable. Is it easy to remove?

[pmeswani]

Sorry, corrupt is not quite what I meant.

Anyway, I was only asking regarding McAfee. I've never had a new app ask that I remove spyware before.

And McAfee does run like a dog, the interface is carpe, and their website is sometimes incomprehendable. Is it easy to remove?

Easy to remove McAfee? I believe so. The uninstall string should be in the registry (under the mcafee keys). Because most AV software install drivers / filters (can be found in Device Manager under the hidden devices), this would need to be removed before installing any new AV. Some AV products, like TrendMicro, will scan the registry to see if any AV are installed. Don't know if they do manual uninstalls. I use to have to manually remove McAfee from corporate workstations remotely in order to reinstall it. Use to be able to do it blindfolded.

Don't know if this helps...

http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windo...ve-Mcafee.html

or

http://www.pchell.com/virus/uninstallmcafee.shtml