RE: Janet Krueger on CBS....

["Mike Haston ** Data" <MHaston@xxxxxxx>]

Great article.  I was going to mention Ad-Aware and K++ (KazaaLite +), but I 
see they are covered.  Someday when Internet laws are enforceable (which will 
be never) I would like to see a few things banned ...

Any site with a pop-up ad (even CNN.com).
Spam mail sent to 10 year old kid's accounts.
For that matter any domain that does not remove when you ask them to.
Any program with spyware.
Any site that tries to make itself your homepage.

When I got my cable modem and firewall I was truly amazed, shocked, horrified 
at what tried to install itself and what applications tried to "call home".



-----Original Message-----
From: Jones, John (US) [mailto:John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 9:21 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Janet Krueger on CBS....


Try BSplayer: www.bsplayer.org  I don't think it does Real formats but
handles other formats easily, has a small footprint, and is pretty
customizeable.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 11:45 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
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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