GaryK7Premium
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Re: Limewire Installed Trojan Market forces might force CyDoor out of business. Other than that probably nothing will happen. What they did, while not very nice, is totally legal. The way I see it, until we change our laws to make what companies like CyDoor do more like what happens when someone breaks into our house these issues will only get worse.
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Market forces might force CyDoor out of business.
I was not going to post this until I saw CyDoor mentioned several times in this thread. I downloaded a game to test out before putting it on my wife's computer. "Freetetris2.0" from ZDNET's webpage. I checked everything before I downloaded and advertising was mentioned. On the install things did not look right so at the end I choose to not let it complete and canceled it. I decided to run Ad-Aware and it found even tho I had canceled that CyDoor was already loaded on my computer in hidden files and registry. Ad-Aware promptly took car of them. Following is a quote of what I posted on ZDNET's page for customers comments on the product.
Frank ********. wrote:
"The advertising for this product is completely misleading. It is NOT freeware, it is shareware. "Freeware" is only a part of the name. This product also uses "Cydoor" bundled software for ads. Cydoor is recognized by Lavasoft's "Ad-Aware program as "spyware". Even tho at the end of install I clicked "no" not to install and it appeared as tho it did not, it still installed the Cydoor spyware already. I discovered this after I had deleted the download and ran, Ad-Aware. I am somewhat disappointed in ZDNET for not checking a little closer, but do realize they have many thousands of downloads and would be impossible to check them all." ZDNET's page if interested is,
»www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/···84,.html
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 Luka1
join:2001-10-30
Index, WA | reply to GaryK7
The way I see it, until we change our laws to make what companies like CyDoor do more like what happens when someone breaks into our house these issues will only get worse.
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Here's an article that explains it a little more fully. It seems this is only an issue with version 2.0.2 and later.
»wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,49430,00.html |
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 Doctor FourMy other vehicle is a TARDISPremium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX | reply to Gary44
More on the DlDer trojan: Bill Webb of Cexx.org
did a little bit of research on it and found out
that ClickTillUWin, which is the program the trojan
is hidden inside, is distributed by none other
than Cydoor Technologies. An article he posted a link
to on grc.spyware is here:
»www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c···0370.DTL
Also read his comments he posted on GRC in this thread:
»grc.com/x/news.exe?cmd=article&g···41&utag=
(You'll have to copy & paste the above into the address
bar - also, the link in that thread doesn't work: a ">"
was added on the end. It's the same as the one above.)
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