[Gllug] Interesting -- Explorer Destroyer

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 29 Apr, Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 11:53:32AM +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
> > On Thu 27 Apr, Richard Jones wrote:
> > > 
> > > http://www.explorerdestroyer.com/
> > > 
> > > & apparently you can earn $1 for each M$IE user switched.
> > > 
> > > Rich.
> > > 
> >    Unfortunately in the present climate I would be very wary about
> > installing their software as it is too similar to other spyware. It would
> > seem to be too good to be true, and could even be the visible part of
> > something rather more sinister.
> 
> I rather doubt that User-Agent sniffing is illegal.
> 
> Rich.
> 
   Agreed on that, but I am wary that any facility supplied which claims to
do something vaguely useful can hide something else which is definitely not
desirable. Many items of malware aimed at users of another OS appear at
first to be worth viewing and/or downloading.

-- 
Chris Bell

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