[thelist] Returned mail that did not originate at our organization

Chris W. Parker cparker at swatgear.com
Tue Nov 19 12:45:07 CST 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: carole guevin [mailto:carole at pixeltable.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:35 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: RE: [thelist] Returned mail that did not originate at our
> organization
>
>
> hey chris,
>
> :excuse me for being lame (and possibly rude), but i have absolutey no
> :idea what you meant by that email.
>
> no offense. what I'm saying that on top of those freakin'
> spam scams, trojan
> viruses there is also spyware (back entry software) that can
> get installed
> without you knowing... only by surfing to a site like msn for
> example...

i've never used ad_search but i have used ad_aware. do these programs
not need permission to be installed? i would assume that any program
requires some sort of permission right?

> there is a small mini-download to make on Lavasoft -
> http://www.lavasoft.de - called Ad_search... and you would be
> surprised of
> which software actually are spyware. if one of the persons in
> your company
> visited a site that is waiting to  drop backweb soft - it's
> an entry door.

i will try it out and see what happens.

> so the point altogether - is that I'm really upset about all
> the crap going
> on out there as one who uses the net extensively.

i get it now. i am in agreement with your concern. ;)


thanks,
chris.



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