Well, the whole RetroCoder Incident is now flaming across the ‘net. If you missed my earlier blog entry on this subject, RetroCoder is trying to stop Sunbelt (and other security companies) from even examining their product, by using this agreement:
CMP has an article, here. P2pnet has some thoughts on it, here. The original story from Joris Evers at Zdnet is here. It also got Slashdotted, here, with lots of interesting comments.
The Slashdot post got it a bit wrong — we are not getting sued. We have only been threatened by Retrocoder. Here’s what they sent to us through our standard submission process:
A developer has submitted information about their product which may be flagged as spyware.
Company: RetroCoder Limited
Company website: www.SpyMon.com
Contact name: Anthony Ball
Contact email: anthony@spymon.com
Product name affected: SpyMon
Product versions affected: all
Product is detected as: spy program
Software can be downloaded here:
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Brief description of software:
Program to allow you to monitor other computers
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Reason for submission:
If you read the copyright agreement when you downloaded or ran our
program you will see that Anti-spyware publishers/software houses are
NOT allowed to download, run or examine the software in any way. By
doing so you are breaking EU copyright law, this is a criminal
offence. Please remove our program from your detection list or we
will be forced to take action against you. Thankyou,
Anthony Ball
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Submitted: 20051028231212
Code: DEV_SPYWARE
Alex Eckelberry