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Re: All Advantage Spyware
From: Russel Smith <carlos () ARKPACIFIC COM>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:36:21 +1000
Everyone who is upset and suprised about the spyware installed on their system should read the fine print and agreements that they agree to when installing all there software its all there, its all legal, but most of us don't bother reading the 10 page long agreements, At 05:54 PM 9/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
See http://www.grc.com for additional information. -----Original Message----- From: VULN-DEV List [mailto:VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM]On Behalf Of
Thierry
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 11:04 AM To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM Subject: Re: All Advantage Spyware Daehlie Owns wrote: Attention AllAdvantage Users: It has come to my attention, that All Advantage corp. 's software for surfing the net for money, has some dll files that do some interesting things. They are detailed in this text file, written by acecww, http://home.cyberarmy.com/acecww/advert.txt , please read it, it shows many things, such as screwing with the registery, and unregistering dll's, replacing the code, then when your browser closes, putting everything back to the way it was. Anyone else have any comments, questions, or just plain outrage, please reply to this email. --Daehlie I have Advpack.dll, Advert.dll, amcompat.tlb and amstream.dll on my system. Though I NEVER installed nor used ALLAdvantage. Win98 SE Thierry http://www.Purge-it.com/?vulndev
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- Re: All Advantage Spyware, (continued)
- Re: All Advantage Spyware Brad Griffin (Sep 12)
- Re: All Advantage Spyware Thierry (Sep 12)
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- Re: How to prevent malicious linking/posting to webapps? Bluefish (P.Magnusson) (Sep 12)
- Re: How to prevent malicious linking/posting to webapps? Lincoln Yeoh (Sep 13)
- Re: How to prevent malicious linking/posting to webapps? Robert Collins (Sep 14)
- Re: How to prevent malicious linking/posting to webapps? Pluto (Sep 13)
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- Re: How to prevent malicious linking/posting to webapps? Slawek (Sep 12)
- Re: All Advantage Spyware Russel Smith (Sep 12)
- Re: All Advantage Spyware Jonathan Rickman (Sep 12)
- Re: All Advantage Spyware Brad Griffin (Sep 12)
- Re: All Advantage Spyware Doug Kahler (Sep 12)