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Internet's Deadliest, Malicious & Undetectable Global Virus
Infecting 25+ Million Computer's, Websites & You!
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Imagine how powerful & very lucrative it would be if your search engine
keywords began popping up on all of your competitor's sites throughout the
Internet.  Without your competitor's knowledge, their customer's knowledge
and even if they did have knowledge there was nothing that your competitor
could do about it. Pepsi has been surfacing on all of Coca-Cola's sites,
American Airline links can now be seen on Delta Airlines web pages, Sprint
is now receiving AT & T customers & your beloved family entertainment site
Disney is now promoting adult pornography to children. All thanks to the
Scumware Privacy Virus developed by companies like eZula TopText, Gator,
Surf+ and other's.  (Links to these companies found at the end of this
report.)

For $0.30 to $1.00/clickthrough, you can have your links overlapping your
competitor's links known as TopText on your competitor's website where their
customer's will be clicking on their links but be tricked into visiting your
site. Sounds like a great marketing proposition if it's your links being
viewed. But how would you feel if it's your competitor's links being viewed
on your website, knowing that your customer's are being lost to your
competition and there's nothing that you can do to prevent this from
happening.

Why can't you prevent this?
It's not the actual web sites that are creating TopText keywords. Rather
it's your customer's software programs they installed causing this to happen
and your customer's are probably not even aware that this is happening.

What's the origin of the virus?
Although the virus could be packaged with any downloadable software
programs. One such program that has been downloaded over 15 million times is
the new KaZaa system that replaces the popular Napster program allowing
people to download pirated copies of MP3 music files. When you download
these shareware or freeware programs from a variety of respected download
sites. You don't know that these desirable programs that you want are
package with virus programs that you don't want. When the program does get
installed it's buried deep into the programming, scripting language of your
operating system without your knowledge.

Now the real danger here especially if you have small children visiting
sites such as Walt Disney, Bugs Bunny, Barney the Dinosaur, ect.

Your children have no knowledge that the links they are viewing could very
well be taking them to Adult Entertainment Sites.

Here's an example: Let's say your children were reading a story about
Detective Dick Tracy. The story exert might read to your children:
"Detective Dick Tracy, who had just climb a cherry tree to rescue a scared
bunny. Took the bunny in his hands and gently caressed his soft fur and
bushy tail."

Now keywords "Dick", "cherry", "bunny" and "tail" may be linked to what
children believe would given them more information about that link. However,
to the horror of parents these links actually take the children to adult
entertainment sites showing male & female genitals, playboy bunnies, virgin
girls having sex and so forth. This is all thanks to the Scumware TopText
and Surf+ viruses that you have installed on your computer without your
knowledge.

Now let's say that you don't have children and from time to time as an adult
you enjoy going to such adult sites.  Well then do you enjoy your private
life being made public. Information such as your name, mailing address,
telephone number, credit cards, banking, financial information, PIN#'s, your
personal documents or anything else stored on your computer now being
accessible to the rest of the world?

That's where the Gator privacy issues come into to the picture. Gator is the
company known for it's online helper application that manages passwords and
user IDs and has millions of active users.  While Gator is free, the company
that developed it sells keywords and customer demographics to marketers that
lets them launch pop-ups that are designed to block banners on sites such as
Yahoo with pop-ups of their own by serving pop-ups of the exact same
dimensions, completely obscuring the original ad. The pop-ups hover over the
banners even when the web visitor scrolls down the page, making it even more
difficult to discern that the visible ad is a substitute.

An example is a customer at the Delta Airlines site that would normally
receive a Delta Airlines pop-up promotion. Thanks to Gator they are now
receiving American Airlines promotions, on the Delta Airlines sites as the
perfectly fitting American Airlines overlap has hidden the Delta Airlines
pop-up and you would be none of the wiser.

The real danger is the information you are exposing about yourself that can
be used against you. Although Gator quickly quiets these facts by telling
their customer's that the only information they receive is 100% secure and
it is used to deliver more highly targeted information and advertising to
you. They negligent to mention that your very personal and private
information is being exploited and hawked to other companies, who in turn
cause a chain reaction and sell the same information to other companies.

Once your information is given out, there's no stopping who will know what
about you. Is it legal for Gator to use their own banner's and for releasing
such private information about you?  Although Gator says the practice is a
service for consumers who are fully aware of this disclosure at the time of
installation.  The fact that Gator is profiting from the sale of advertising
that feeds off another website's advertising, on the intellectual property
of that company. May be a very shady area of law that could violate the
unfair competition act.

A similar issue between news publisher TotalNews, which framed the content
of other web publishers to retain readers and sell advertising within the
frames.  Settled out of court after publishers took the company to court,
with the settlement being that TotalNews would allow the consumer the right
to block the frames. Will Gator allow their consumers to block their pop-up
overlays?

Currently this answer is no, but when I spoke to Gator in preparation for
this report.

They advised me that company's marketing tactics are completely legal as
it's the consumer who invites Gator to serve pop-ups when they install the
software and it's the consumer who agrees to release such personal
information to Gator for better serving their customer's. This consent is
asked and given at the time of installation as found in the dense licensing
agreement, which I might add is seldom read by the common person.

Virus Capabilities Summary
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So let's summarize what damage this virus is capable of doing:

(1) You will see green or yellow links that the creator of the web site you
are visiting never placed on their websites. These links will trick and
redirect you away from the site you want to visit to another site that
promotes immoral, unethical or illegal products and services. Such as child
pornography, spam, email, chain letters, ect.  Products and services you
would never agree to purchasing in the first place, but were tricked into
coming to these sites.

(2)Your children will now be exposed to adult pornography sites that the
creator of the site they visited never intended to have happen.

(3)This virus will exploit your private and confidential information such as
credit cards, PIN#'s, bank account information and passwords, anything and
everything you would store on your computer will now be accessible to the
creators of these viruses allowing them to commit identity theft, fraud,
exploitation and/or blackmail against you.

 (4) This virus will leave Trojan viruses on your computer that over time
will completely destroy your computer and erase all of your data forever.

(5)You may loose your job or spouse because either of them will think you
are visiting sites you shouldn't be visiting.

(6) As a webmaster your intellectual property will be highjacked, defaced,
defrauded and you will be robbed of valuable advertising revenue.

(7) As a Internet business owner you will loose sales as your customers
click on your links, and are tricked into visiting your competitors sites.
Alternatively, you customer's will see and believe that you are promoting
immoral, unethical and/or illegal products/services when you are not.

(8) As a web site owner you open yourself up for potential lawsuits from
angry customers and/or parents of children that visited your site as your
links are directing them to adult pornography or other immoral, unethical,
illegal sites.

How to Protect Yourself
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(1) Do not download any freeware or shareware software programs no matter if
you trust the download sites.  Remember that there is no such thing as FREE!
Freeware or Shareware means although you don't have to pay cash for these
software programs. You will have to give something in order to get something
in return. This could be your privacy, your freedom, your job, your spouse
and/or your business.

(2) If you do download freeware & shareware programs. Then do so from
companies you trust, author's you know and read, re-read and understand the
full dense licensing agreement before you install the software.

(3) Currently most Scumware Viruses only work with Microsoft Internet
Explorer and not Netscape Navigator. Therefore ensure you have copies of
both programs on your computer. Then with both browsers, visit several
professional, well respected big name sites and compare and click on the
same links in both browsers. If all the links direct you to the same sites
in both browser's then you know that you are not infected. If Microsoft
Internet Explorer sends you to one site and Netscape Navigator to another
site then you are probably infected and need to take action.

(4) Think before you click. If you start clicking on links that seem to be
sending you away from the site you intended to visit, then you very well
could be infected. Here's an example. Supposing you are clicking around the
McDonald's website and your last click brought you to Burger King or Dairy
Queen. Now why would McDonald's send you to their competitor? You are
infected with the virus, that's why!

What To Do If Your Infected
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First understand that there are no easy answers and quick remedies, however
there are two available options to you. First you could try to uninstall the
virus so long as you know which software programs contain the virus and all
corresponding files that are doing the damage. You must also know which
programs have been infected by the installation of the virus. Your chance of
success is better at winning the lottery then accomplishing this task.

However, if you are successful in knowing which programs have been infected
and all files that make up the virus. You will need a professional strength
uninstaller that will delete all of these files permanently and change all
infected programs back to their original settings before the Scumware Virus
was installed. If your uninstaller does not do this, then you have to
manually make these changes yourself.

Failure to successful find, uninstall, delete and revise all infected
Scumware Virus files could result in more Trojan horses being created, your
personal information still being probed and leaked or worse yet your
computer becoming completely inoperable and destroyed. Merely using your
computer's regular uninstaller will make the programs inoperable but do
nothing to remove the actual virus from your system. For most consumers this
option is not an option at all. So the second option is to sign-up for my
free virus bulletin service that is sent out when new information is made
available.

When you sign-up, your information is kept completely secure and
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Valuable Links regarding my report:
Ezula TopText: http://www.ezula.com
Gator: http://www.gator.com
Kazaa: http://www.kazaa.com
Surf+: http://www.surf+.com