Re: Janet Krueger on CBS....

a personal frewall like zone alarm can cut all that traffic back to the
"mothership".
jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 12:45 AM
Subject: RE: Janet Krueger on CBS....


> > From: Joe Pluta
> >
> > Oops.  Unfortunately, CBS has decided to go purely RealVideo, and I
> > won't put RealPlayer on any machine I own.
>
> I decided to do a little more research before casting aspersions on the
> fine folks from RealMedia (or whatever they call themselves) and in so
> doing found the following page:
>
> http://www.aluminumstudios.com/spyware/#cleanliving
>
> I highly suggest everyone with an Internet connection read this.  I
> hadn't realized just how bad the spyware deal is, but evidently there
> are programs that, upon installation, will begin "trickle-downloading"
> other programs that then act as spyware.  Other programs will actually
> hijack your DNS settings so as to resolve their outbound requests.
>
> Read the page, but more importantly follow the links.  Mr. Chen has
> spent quite a bit of time creating what is in effect a primer on the
> ugly fact of spyware.
>
> For example, he provided a link to this particularly startling story:
>
> http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/1471/IDG020221mediaplayer/
>
> <shiver>
>
> Joe
>
>
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