Talk:SpectorSoft
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Would someone be so kind as to explain what happened? I have spent a good deal of time follwoing the suggestions that would occasaionally pop up on the page, such as finding relevant internal links that point to this page, finding a category, and so on. I have followed everything to the best of my understanding and have contibuted to a few articles and would like to know if there is some help available as I am a little confused. ThanksTechie guru 22:18, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
I have begun to add citations to this article, if anyone would be willing to assist me on this by adding more or making corrections to the citations etc.. please feel free. Techie guru 14:48, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
I removed the afd tag, but left the NPOV tag up for now. I will leave it up for a week or two in hopes that someone will assist with it. Techie guru 12:24, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Removed NPOV tag per the timeline in the above thread. If there is a difference of opinion on the removal, please feel free to discuss it. Techie guru 19:59, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup
I have done a little cleaning up of this article, however it still does not read like an encyclopaedia entry.
There is far too much emphasis on the history of the company, also the language is very informal and verbose. It also does not have a Neutral point of view as required, but paints the company in a completely positive light.
This software company is surely controversial due to the 'spyware' nature of its products, there should be a section on this, as the software could easily be used for harm as well as good. From what I have read in the references, the software is completely covert, surely there are major legal issues surrounding this - eg industrial espionage, bosses reading private emails, spouses catching cheating partners, computer dealers selling new PC's pre-installed with the software... etc.
Examples of how people/companies have used the software would be very good, both positive and negative if possible. (eg employees fired, fraud discovered, paedophiles caught, used by stalker, used to steal money/identity... whatever )
The opening paragraph and the product information should be expanded with more information.
The article needs Wikification to add links.
Perhaps screenshots could be added (if they exist for a covert system).
A sentence on the target markets would be useful.
--Ozhiker 00:47, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Ozhiker, thank you for the help and also for the advice, I will start to work on this. I also wanted to mention that I removed 3 internal links from the list as they were not relevant. I figured i should explain why i did this. Netbus is a trojan, SpectorSoft does not make trojans as far as I know, I also removed the spyware reference. While I can see the reason someone would link that (wordplay), spyware is nothing like what SpectorSoft has. Spyware is a parisite that is usually picked up on a web site, or perhaps an email, but there really is a distinct different between spywae and spy software. I would be more than happy to continue to discuss this. Again, thanks for everything and I will start working on wikifying soon. Techie guru 18:04, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
