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Subject: Re: Comet spyware??

Author: Volker Pittlik

Date: 10:52:24 03/14/01

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On March 14, 2001 at 09:58:56, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

...

>I guess it is just a collision of names. There seems to be a program package
>"Comet Cursor" which is suspected to be spyware:
>
>http://grc.com/oo/spyware.htm
>
>Must be a poor disk clean-up utility if it just compares folder names ?
>But I don't really know anything about this business.

In fact it's true. At work we have to use all kind of virus- spyware- and
whatever kind of protection software. This comet cursor stuff is coming in
somehow from adds on webpages. The tools we use report this and your program as
spyware.

Volker



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