Friday 4 January 2002

DSSAgent

DSSAgent turned out to be spy software from Mattel. I had recently installed a kids program from The Learning Tree which, I think, is owned by Mattel. DSSAgent.exe sends information from your PC to Mattel. Mattel claim that it doesn't send any personal information, but it is rather sneaky in that it never says that it is going to do this. A quick deletion of the file, and the removal of the relevant entry from the registry stopped it from working again.

More info: Salon.com article

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