Re: All Advantage Spyware

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

Hi all.

It seems that the page referred
to(http://home.cyberarmy.com/acecww/advert.txt) concerning the AllAdvantage
advert.dll files may be a false report. Steve Gibson of Gibson Research has
informed me (via one of the GRC NGs) that the text is a direct copy of the
original FUD report about the Aureate 'spyware' dll that was included in
earlier versions of advertising supported software. If this is correct, then
it could be a case of someone who was caught out by AA attempting to get
some sort of bad publicity happening for AA.

When I receive the details from GRC, I'll let you know.

Cheers,
Gryph


> -----Original Message-----
> From: VULN-DEV List [mailto:VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM]On
> Behalf Of MJK
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 1:55 PM
> To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: Re: All Advantage Spyware
>
>
> Actually it is not in just those money making programs.  It is also in
> common shareware and commercial application.  I have seen it in other
> commercial applications.  It is usually embedded in programs.  You can
> download an ad-aware program (Ad-aware v3.61) from the
> freeware section of
> http://www.lavasoft.de/.