Re: Question regarding Marketscore spyware

[Gary Flynn <flynngn () JMU EDU>]

Jason Richardson wrote:

> Hi all, I just read an article about the threat that this flavor of
> spyware poses to edus and that several, including those represented by
> frequent posters here and on Unisog, have blocked all access to/from
> their networks.  Has anyone else had any experience with it?  We have
> not (yet) to the best of my knowledge.  Here's the story -
> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118757,tk,dn120104X,00.asp.
Its the first I've heard about it but the press seems to be picking it
up as someone
else just asked me about it. It doesn't appear to be anything new. I've
seen posts
about it that date back to 2001. University of Minnesota's web page on the
subject says the page was last updated in 2003.
http://www1.umn.edu/oit/security/marketscore.html

I'd think a commercial venture that was man-in-the-middling SSL protected
sessions would end up in court pretty quick but maybe their privacy policy
discloses this and thereby the person turning their computer over to this
unknown code is making a responsible, informed decision. Hey,
I have this neat screen saver that works real well with it too.... ;)
XP's software restrictions feature looks more and more attractive.

A quick Google search makes me think Adaware and Spybot both detect
it.

If some of those folks blocking the servers would provide an IP address list
and/or their domain naming scheme I'm sure I'm not the only one here that
would appreciate it. TIA.

Gary Flynn
Security Engineer
James Madison University

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