Re: All Advantage Spyware

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

Hi all.
I had some experience with AA a while back.
I read EULAs and TOS pages. The problem with AllAdvantage is that they
updated their program a number of times, but did not inform their users of
changes in the TOS relating to any new 'functionality' in the software. The
earlier TOS agreement stated (if I recall correctly) that your AA username,
pages visited, log-on and log-off times would be sent to AA. That was
reasonable and allowed them to track your surfing habits. However, as I said
above, as the spying capabilities of AA was developed, updates to the TOS
were not announced to users downloading updates.

Cheers,
Gryph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: VULN-DEV List [mailto:VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM]On Behalf Of
> Russel Smith
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 1:36 PM
> To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: Re: All Advantage Spyware
>
>
> 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,