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Re: EARTHLINK'S COVERT SPYWARE!

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From: Michael Bandor
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 00:37
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I think you need to reevaluate your statement.  I too have History Uploader
indicated by Zone Alarm and I don't have Earthlink!

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"Frog2" <FrogRemailer@NoReply.Invalid> wrote in message
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> Originally posted to alt.privacy:
>
> I've been trying out Earthlink and I noticed that whenever I
> connect with Earthlink something called "History Uploader"
> wants to access the Internet according to ZoneAlarm.  This
> file is located in the Earthlink folder. Does anyone have any
> idea what this is for?  What's really strange though is that
> another program called "Internet Connection Verifying
> Module", also located in the Earthlink folder, wants to
> access the Internet whenever I sign on with my AOL software.
> What makes it even stranger is that this seeming Earthlink
> progarm doesn't try to connect when I sign on with Earthlink.
>  Now, why would an Earthlink program want to connect to the
> Internet when I sign on with AOL? And why doesn't that same
> program attempt to connect when I sign on with Earthlink?
> ************
> EARTHLINK HAS, WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT, PLANTED
> _SPYWARE_ IN YOUR COMPUTER. It is set up to make available to
> them information in your computer that they have no business
> obtaining from you. Earthlink is OWNED and CONTROLLED by the
> unscrupulous, criminally-convicted cult of $cientology, which
> is notorious for this sort of thing.
>
> For more information, go to:
> http://www.xenu.net
> http://www.scientology-kills.org
> http://www.scientology-lies.com
> http://www.entheta.org
> http://www.lisamcpherson.org
> http://www.factnet.org/Scientology
>
> GET RID OF EARTHLINK! Make sure to delete all of their spy
> files too.
>
>
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