Re: All Advantage Spyware

[Brad Griffin <b.griffin () cqu edu au>]

Hi all.

It is all well and good that AA tracks your surfing habits in order to pay
you. However, there is absolutely no justification for retrieving dial-up
numbers, software installed (except of course for hunting 'cheat' progs) and
your name from the registry. But I guess if you value your privacy at 50
cents an hour...
Cheers,
Gryph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: VULN-DEV List [mailto:VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM]On Behalf Of
> Justin Lintz
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 12:09 AM
>
> I dont know if you would call it spyware because basically
> the whole idea
> surrounding all advantage is to track what ads you click on
> the bar and how
> long you have your web browser open and are surfing.  In order for the
> program to track that information I couldn't see why it
> should not be able
> to do that,  I think most people who run all advantage should
> realize that
> their web behavior is probably being tracked but its in order
> for them to
> get the cash from All Advantage.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
*snip*
> --Daehlie