Re: All Advantage Spyware

["Scott D. Yelich" <scott () SPY ORG>]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> > 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.
> This is not exactly breaking news, but it should still spark plenty of
> outrage. A few of us on the list have been working on a project to
> document the various spyware systems and detail how they operate from a
> "techie's" point of view. If you'd like to help out with this project you
> can visit my site or email me directly. We are currently focused on the
> Aureate / Radiate system, which uses the advert.dll file you mentioned.

Unless someone "opsin" through some clearly described process, these
things deserve all the hell they get.  Personally, I wouldn't mind
people making "faker" programs that fill these databases with crap.
Things like poison cookies, proxies, anonymizers... these are things
of the future.

Why do I have to give 50 items of personal information simply to
give me feedback to some company (ie: microsoft?).  Companies claim
that they won't sell your data -- great, then they get bought and
the new company decides that it *will* sell your data... etc.

If anyone has any decent poison-ware, please do send me an email.

Scott