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Greg B · 06-21-2003, 02:03 PM

Gadzooks!

I've been bitchin' about this spyware/scumware shit for 2 weeks now and it's like nobody's listening.

Reason being is too many are using it to rip people off.

I'll post the three links useful:

www.winpatrol.com

www.spybot.com

www.scumware.com

The sudden rash of fast-spyware-downloading dialers and spyware is due to the fact that we've all got broadband now.

Shit wouldn't work on 56k or 28.8

I noticed them several weeks ago on the TGP sites. All over the friggin' place and insidious too.

When you run sites with blindlinks, redirects, browser locks, hidden browsers etc. you're bound to have this shit on your site whether you did it or not. Considering the amount of traffic a TGP can get just one link can harm an enormous amount of surfers before the site administrator can spot the offender and remove it.

I can assure you the authorities and powers that be are aware of the problem and have been monitoring the culprits and have planned a strategy.

Because of this crap and the volume of complaints soon there'll be a mandate that whatever a link says it's going to go to, it had BETTER go to it. No more masked status bars and other cloaking and misdirectional shit. Same thing will apply to websites as it does with advertising. Any deceptions of any kind will result in some form of punishment and that'd put an end to the circle Jerk-pop up scam artists out here.

These guys are fucking things up for everybody else. They may think they're getting away with it but I can assure you the only reason it's going on is because the evidence is being collected and strategies laid out.

Some guys actually think they can get away with this shit and I for one am gonna sit back and eat popcorn and laugh my ass off when I look at this board sometime in the near future and see how many webmasters are cryin' the blues cause their shit has been confiscated or they're sittin' in a jail cell somewhere. Especially the guys trying to hide behind foreign protection.

Sometimes it's not how 'many' people you bullshit, it's 'whom' you bullshit.

06-21-2003, 02:03 PM
Greg B So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: EARTH (for the time being) Posts: 7,014	Gadzooks! I've been bitchin' about this spyware/scumware shit for 2 weeks now and it's like nobody's listening. Reason being is too many are using it to rip people off. I'll post the three links useful: www.winpatrol.com www.spybot.com www.scumware.com The sudden rash of fast-spyware-downloading dialers and spyware is due to the fact that we've all got broadband now. Shit wouldn't work on 56k or 28.8 I noticed them several weeks ago on the TGP sites. All over the friggin' place and insidious too. When you run sites with blindlinks, redirects, browser locks, hidden browsers etc. you're bound to have this shit on your site whether you did it or not. Considering the amount of traffic a TGP can get just one link can harm an enormous amount of surfers before the site administrator can spot the offender and remove it. I can assure you the authorities and powers that be are aware of the problem and have been monitoring the culprits and have planned a strategy. Because of this crap and the volume of complaints soon there'll be a mandate that whatever a link says it's going to go to, it had BETTER go to it. No more masked status bars and other cloaking and misdirectional shit. Same thing will apply to websites as it does with advertising. Any deceptions of any kind will result in some form of punishment and that'd put an end to the circle Jerk-pop up scam artists out here. These guys are fucking things up for everybody else. They may think they're getting away with it but I can assure you the only reason it's going on is because the evidence is being collected and strategies laid out. Some guys actually think they can get away with this shit and I for one am gonna sit back and eat popcorn and laugh my ass off when I look at this board sometime in the near future and see how many webmasters are cryin' the blues cause their shit has been confiscated or they're sittin' in a jail cell somewhere. Especially the guys trying to hide behind foreign protection. Sometimes it's not how 'many' people you bullshit, it's 'whom' you bullshit.