PC Audit

[Alastair Smeaton]

...but at least I don't pretend to know more than Symantec.

neither do I - but on an issue I care about, I do the homework.

On your logic, if Symantec tell you to jump off a bridge.... wheeee

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

If Symantec are trusted by companies, why shouldn't I believe them for
myself? If they say it's spyware, then as far as I'm concerned it
is.

In Symantec's view, it IS spyware. It can certainly be used as
spyware if someone wants to do that. However, it's purpose is to
demonstrate how a trojan can bypass software firewalls. AFAICT it
doesn't do anything more than that.

I have a couple hacker tools on my hard disk that AVG daily detects as
"viruses". I know what they are, where they are and that they're
quite harmless as long as I don't run let someone else run them on my
machine. The situation is the same with PCAudit until someone
demonstrates that the people giving it out are in fact selling the
information returned by running it.