Klarinet Archive - Posting 000505.txt from 2002/12

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] How it happens
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:00:19 -0500

Ad-Aware is designed for spyware, which only hits your system if you perform a download of some
kind. Then it embeds itself in the registry files and goes undetected by antivirus software.
Most people are, I suspect, obvlivious to the specter of spyware and would by quite surprised the
first time they ran an Ad-Aware scan. In other words, even though I don't think spyware is what
caused Bill's recent observation of pop-ads following his Google search, it's still a good idea to
run Ad-Aware and see what it finds.

--- Frank and Margaret Gaze <gaze@-----.nz> wrote:
> Bill, you can download software to stomp on this sort of thing.
>
> Ad-aware is the one I use.
>
> Frank Gaze
> New Zealand
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Wright [mailto:b6w@-----.net]
> Sent: Saturday, 21 December 2002 6:11 am
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] How it happens
>
>
> I changed my email address 10 days ago. As a matter of discipline, I
> have used this particular name **only** to read and post on Klarinet,
> and to do Google searches related to clarinet.
>
> Because of our conversation about clarinet choirs, I did some Google
> searches a couple of nights ago for clarinet choirs. Several of the
> hits were Japanese sites, which normally I wouldn't visit because I
> don't speak Japanese, but since a couple of them had web pages in
> English....
>
> I did not post a single message nor download a single file nor play a
> single sample. I merely looked at the pages that came up on my Google
> searches.
>
> Yet today, I received a spam from one of the sites that I visited.
>
> I suppose this is accomplished by cookies. There's no other reasonable
> way, is there?
>
> Grumpily,
> Bill
>
>
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