Billy,

Comet Cursor was commonly regarded as such a "spyware" program. The name
appeared in articles about this problem which I read earlier this summer. I
quoted the GRC URL from memory.  I've gone to the Comet Systems site to
double-check and have read their privacy statement, which includes a
reference to a Ziff-Davis article. The ZD article is a retraction.

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2599169,00.html

Comet Cursor has been judged benign.

However, you might want to reconsider the approach which requires any
program to be downloaded onto the user's PC.

Tim Romano




----- Original Message -----
From: "William Marshall" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: SPYWARE


> Tim:
>
> Thanks for that info re: spyware. I was not aware of that, and have
removed
> the Comet cursor from the SIXTEEN WORDS FOR WATER site.
>
> Billy Marshall Stoneking
> http://ezrapound.cjb.net
>
>