Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:56:01 03/23/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 08:47:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 23, 2000 at 00:23:49, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On March 22, 2000 at 23:13:42, Aaron Tay wrote: >> >>>On March 22, 2000 at 16:46:47, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>> >>>>On March 22, 2000 at 09:26:36, Fernando Villegas wrote: >>> >>> >>>>>Now I am better protected that a heavy tank. But, just >>>>>yesterday, this guy showed to me another nuisance, that is, how spyware >>material is spreaded in our computers by so many freeware programs, some of >>them very popular and good in his area. >>> >>>>>You will not be dissappointed, although prepare yourselves to lose some of >>that freeware troyan horses that simply does not run if you does not let them >>to put his eggs. >>> >>> >>>Are you implying in any way that some of the free/shareware chess programs are >>>trojan horses? >>> >>>Hmm..Popular and good sharware , (Crafty?,Goliath?) >>> >>>So were any chess programs found to be trojan horses? >> >>Just to make things clear, you were not replying to what I posted. >> >>-Tom > > >Sorry to jump in, but to me, this whole thing smells a bit sour. I'm >not a windows user, so I'm not an expert on anything in that world, but >the entire idea ssems very far-fetched to me... However, we have a huge >NT open lab here, with students downloading every kind of thing imaginable. >And since I am responsible for our new firewall, I can say (for this one >installation with over 100 NT machines) that we are _not_ seeing any odd >traffic from the NT boxes to the outside world. > >That typically is _not_ the way various ecommerce sites get data on potential >customers. They more commonly crawl thru newsgroups and email lists, and >extract email addresses from those... Trying to infiltrate a computer with >a trojan horse would open them to so much litigation, I can't imagine this >happening on any kind of large scale... Hi Bob: In fact some kind of litigation was announced against the company that has did the most in spreading these robots. And it has been done in large scale. I had my hard disk full with that shit. And consequently I had my email full of advertising. I am not talking of advertising that I allowed to come from some sites -like Amazon or CD-Now, but other, not asked one. Respect to NT, I do not know for certain, but maybe you could take a look at the site I gave the paras to look for yourself. Cheers Fernando
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