Re: All Advantage Spyware

[Russel Smith <carlos () ARKPACIFIC COM>]

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