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Yahoo adding Pest Patrol

Yahoo is beta testing Anti-Spy for the Yahoo Toolbar, which "allows users to identify potentially unwanted software that creeps into personal computers," reports Reuters. Yahoo's technology is based on a commercial program, Pest Patrol, rather than the popular Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-aware programs. Presumably the toolbar version of Pest Patrol will offer Windows users the chance to upgrade to the full package, but as long as it offers to remove any parasites it finds, that seems a fair trade to me.

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