edbott
join:2005-01-02
Scottsdale, AZ | reply to eburger68
Re: WMP Adware: A Case Study in Deception I should have put "honest" in quotes. How many more ways do I have to say these people are sleazy scumbags?
The one license agreement says it will pop up porn ads on my computer. The other says it will do a whole paragraph's worth of awful things, including installing more spyware. I'm not sure which program is doing the installation of the 31 extras, because I didn't actually allow my test machine to be taken over.
And the fact that it was in the license agreement doesn't make it right or acceptable or "honest." My point is that someone who is suspicious will find plenty of reasons not to click Install; someone who is naive may well be fooled by the social engineering techniques. |
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said by edbott:The one license agreement says it will pop up porn ads on my computer. The other says it will do a whole paragraph's worth of awful things, including installing more spyware. I'm not sure which program is doing the installation of the 31 extras, because I didn't actually allow my test machine to be taken over. It was the first one that installed most of the software in my testing, and that matches what Ben found as well.
The second one did install a few things, but not much beyond what was already there. I'm guessing that much of what it could have and would have installed independently was already installed by the time I clicked through the iDownload.com installation prompt.
Eric L. Howes |
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