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Article #42Re: EARTHLINK'S COVERT SPYWARE!
From: Michael Bandor
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 00:37
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! -- Mike Bandor, Software Engineer, BS-CS/SE Ada83, Ada95, C++, Delphi, JavaScript, WinHelp, PL/SQL, SQL, JOVIAL, MASM, Java, HTML Creator of MEGATERMS, Military Terms & Acronyms http://home.att.net/~mike.bandor/megaterm/megaterm.htm "Frog2" <FrogRemailer@NoReply.Invalid> wrote in message news:D56OZEBI36945.1131365741@frog.nyarlatheotep.org... > 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 $cientology, which > is notorious for this sort of thing. > > For more information, go to: > http://www.xenu.net > http://www.scientology-kills.org > http://www.scientology-lies.com > http://www.entheta.org > http://www.lisamcpherson.org > http://www.factnet.org/Scientology > > GET RID OF EARTHLINK! Make sure to delete all of their spy > files too. > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fccfd,edcef418819c3d76,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfccfd,public X-Google-Thread: f9688,edcef418819c3d76,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf9688,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-23 16:38:05 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!newspeer1.nac.net!netnews.com!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc07-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Michael Bandor" <mike.bandor@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: aol.internet,microsoft.public.access.internet References: <D56OZEBI36945.1131365741@frog.nyarlatheotep.org> Subject: Re: EARTHLINK'S COVERT SPYWARE! Lines: 50 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: <jnDl6.2251$gc7.160126@bgtnsc07-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 00:37:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.37.89.93 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc07-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 982975055 129.37.89.93 (Sat, 24 Feb 2001 00:37:35 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 00:37:35 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet