More Adware Industry Threats IBIS sends cease and desist to WinPatrol More Ad/Spy/irritant-ware industry threats have emerged, this time directed at anti-Spyware and security outfit WinPatrol. IBIS, the makers of the IBIS toolbar, have sent this cease and desist letter (pdf) to the website, claiming the product has a "clear intention of harming IBIS", and Winpatrol should stop "interfering" with their business. IBIS claims their toolbar is installed on a "consensual basis" something spyware researcher Eric Howes points out is patently false.
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 | | Junk is still junk I'm surprised on how many companies who include ad-ware or spy-ware, try so hard in telling us that it's not ad-ware or spy-ware.
Does in provide ads? yes
Does it "watch" how you use your Internet or network usage? Yes
And you are going to debate this how?
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kudos:2 | Re: Junk is still junk Welcome to the world of BonziBUDDY = spyware and it says it not spyware who in the hell wants my search tool bar = spyware
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| Don't be surprised . . . it's kind of like the mobster who considers himself a legitimate business man. It's a fact that many of these types, no matter how bad they are, no matter how low they stoop, genuinely consider themselves to be good citizens!
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| |  jwardl
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Spring, TX | I hope the good people at WinPatrol reply with a photocopy of the respondent's ass.
That says it all. | |
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kudos:1 | Great... Another company full of complete idiots. | |
| |  Fluker
join:2005-04-07
West Lafayette, IN | What the Winpatrol team ought to tell them um....
"Your spyware interferes with my antispyware, the way my users like it" or simply put "You can blow us, all of us"
Talk about business interference. Even if its open source freeware. I would tell them that its their own freaking fault for being unaccepted by entering into a realm of unwanted products.
I can see it now,
IBIS - "Stop him from stopping people from being bothered by my friendly software"
Judge - "So users knowingly download patrol to get rid of your software that snuck onto their computer?"
IBIS - "Well you see its not entirely like that, users don't know that our software is so great and useful and that they need it, winpatrol is depriving them of our cheap crap"
Case closed. | |
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 mrchrisOut and aroundPremium
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North Babylon, NY | What I say to these scum companies... Piss off!
Trying to make a buck over this stupid crap they've been peddling for years which cost manhours and god knows how many computers have had this crap they've been dealing with.
Intention of harming my ass! Your garbage is not welcome on my computers nor on anyone else's! | |
| | | no more ducks I humbly request that no one uses the "quacks like a duck" metaphor in this topic. Everytime this type of thing is posted someone uses it, it's driving me crazy! | |
| |  g0nepostalI Am The One Her Mom Warned Her About
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Concord, CA | Re: no more ducks To that I say,
"Quack."
gp | |
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| | Does MS Antispy Target IBIS? Well then IBIS you are urinating up the proverbial rope.
Go find a real job you parasites. | |
| |  CopPremium
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Auburn, AL | Re: Does MS Antispy Target IBIS? Someone call cooks pest control please! | |
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Damn that felt good..
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| No Basis The legal claims have no basis and will all be dismissed, provided the company filing the claims doesn't have their hand far enough in the rear-end of the entities responsible for determining the case outcome.
Remember: Slander, Libel, Defamation.
They can only be so if the information that is being publicly stated and/or spread about them (adware/malware/spyware) is false, and as far as I've seen every bit of info about them including the software designed to prevent them from infecting our systems with trojans, adware, malware and/or spyware is completely true, and there is no purposeful false representations of the companies propagating and distributing their Virii, Trojans, Adware, Malware, and/or spyware.
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ß | Include-Ware remover Just call it something else.
InWare as it's normally included with something else.
PacWare as it's packaged with something else.
XtraWare as it extra software....
If they don't like the term spyware, or malware, just call it something it REALLY is by everyones definition.
Here's the Pacware that's installed on your system, if you would like to remove some of it, heres a list, what it does, and who installed it. | |
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| Re: Include-Ware remover said by AnonProxy:Just call it something else. Howabout.. Feces-ware. and programs to
eliminate it.. wipeware  | |
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| | Cease and Desist, LOL... Fine all of this crap-ware peddled by the Ad/Spy/irritant-ware industry should be called underwear residue. If it smells like it, sticks around like it, it must be CRAP. They are dingle berries, peddling worthless products that should be banned by all that value what little privacy we have left. | |
| | | just got done cleaning wtools and tbps funny i just got done cleaning out a friend's laptop of those two files, and related crap.
i can't imagine the low-life programmers that can stand themselves for writing this jibberish crap.
i bet they sit around smoking dank laughing at the thought (or news clip) of some unsuspecting victim attempting to remove the program, or change their start page, or terminate the tsk (which automatically re-start).
its really nasty crap. i would terminate the one task and another backup task that loads that task would re-load it. and when i tried to terminate the first one, the other one would reload it. finally went into safe mode and was able to delete both the programs, etc.
these people should be prosecuted as if they were theives, robbing us of not only our time, but of our computer's usability. | |
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1 edit | Re: just got done cleaning wtools and tbps said by DSLTech5:i can't imagine the low-life programmers that can stand themselves for writing this jibberish crap.i bet they sit around smoking dank laughing at the thought (or news clip) of some unsuspecting victim attempting to remove the program, or change their start page, or terminate the tsk (which automatically re-start). Oh they could probably stand themselves, while they raked in the money, they are driving around with secured computers and such. Probably not even using windows, or they have a copy of Windows XP just to test their handywork. They probaby are on the beach with some hot girl while we struggle in keeping our PC's clean, while they look for the next "job".
said by DSLTech5:these people should be prosecuted as if they were theives, robbing us of not only our time, but of our computer's usability. Why, goverment and big business is still proving crime does pay. Look at the recently jailed spammer 9 years and 24 million dollars.. where did he go wrong? Ok so we let him out in 9 years, his money matures and he still does not live as poor as I have seen some people have to live here in the midwest. As sickening as it is, he and the adware/spyware/malware programmers are a lucrative commodity now-a-days. He may have a permanent record, but I bet for 1.2 million he could get rid of it rather quick, or suppress it.
Hell they probably can make just as much money as lawyers. Keep in mind I am not attempting to flame anyone or flame the thread. But I do like to keep somethings in perspective.
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