Re: What is AIM Adware? (Re: All Advantage Spyware)

["Juan M. Courcoul" <courcoul () campus qro itesm mx>]

Vitaly Osipov wrote:

> I forgot to mention another funny string in advert.dll - it has words "AIM
> Adware" in it - all that comes to my mind is Adobe Instant Messager... I
> never used it (stick to ICQ for last 3 years and IRC for dunno how long),
> but maybe it has somethingf in common with All Advantage?
>
> 0005FC83: FF 00 00 00|00 DC FF FF|FF 47 49 46|00 47 49 46  _    ____GIF GIF
> 0005FC93: 00 47 49 46|38 39 61 00|31 2E 30 2E|34 00 41 49   GIF89a 1.0.4 AI
> 0005FCA3: 4D 20 41 64|77 61 72 65|00 00 41 64|53 6F 66 74  M Adware  AdSoft
> 0005FCB3: 77 61 72 65|00 00 41 64|53 6F 66 74|77 61 72 65  ware  AdSoftware

Adobe has nothing to do with this. AIM is shorthand for AOL Instant
Messenger, ICQ's "competitor" (although both belong to America Online).

Cheers,

JMC