From: nowhere@home.com
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Online Petition: HSBC Bank Moving UK Jobs To Asia
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:53:33 +0100

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:37:15 +0100, "Sunil Sood"
 wrote:

>
> wrote in message
>news:a3e7pv4v1bsuu9ds78n49a1t3b7cbq7a0e@4ax.com...
>> I am much more concerned that HSBC is running Spyware on your PC when
>> you access their website.  They make no mention of this in their
>> Privacy Policy (beyond the use of cookies and web bugs) and they do
>> not ask for permission.
>
>Which software is this? I haven't noticed anything - not that I have
>particularly looked..

RedSherrif spyware - If you look at the page source for
http://www.hsbc.co.uk you will see it runs some javascript which loads
the spyware.

For more details of RedSherrif see http://www.cexx.org/sherrif

Mark