30-October-2004, 09:40 AM
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Marketscore - New Privacy Threat
Here is an excerpt from a newsletter I receive by PC World's editor Steve Bass (it's not the standard Home Office newsletter you subscribe to on the PCW website):
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This package professes to be an Internet accelerator, speeding up your access to Web sites. One ad states, "Free Internet Accelerator allows you to surf the Web up to 100% faster". By my arithmetic, everything would then take ZERO time! It appears on many sites that promote shareware and other utilities. Nobody has reported any performance improvement.
In fact, what it does is to intercept ALL your web traffic, including any
information you enter into forms, whether to a secure server or not. Such
access could be used for other purposes, such as modifying your browser,
installing other software, and other immoral acts.
This package used to known as "netsetter", and has been known to be
installed secretly with some software. If you have activeX enabled,
visiting the MarketScore website may install it on your system.
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Here is spywareguide's take on the issue:
http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=488
And Pestpatrol's take:
http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/n/netsetter.asp
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