From langa.com
<<"Spyware At Its Worst"
Hi Fred, I know how you and the majority of your readers like
to protect their privacy, so I thought you might find the
following article of great interest. I run a games community
site and a number of our members started complaining about ads
popping up while they were browsing our forums, even though we
have no banners or ad code on the forums. We were totally
baffled as to why this started to happen, until we read this
article http://www.poenews.com/inhouse/vx2.htm Not only is it
a blatant invasion of privacy but the offending parties
attempts to cover it up and hide behind carefully written
disclaimers is laughable.--- Stephen McNabb
Wow. It seems that at least one of the culprits is "VX2," a kind of
"foistware/spyware" that piggybacks on other software you may choose to
download. The VX2 spyware installs silently and then monitors your
"clickstream" as you navigate around the web, sending information about
your activities and your PC to the VX2 corporation.
The VX2 site ( http://www.vx2.cc ) does not tell you which software is
foisting the VX2 on you; it's hard to unravel it all. It's also unclear
whether VX2 by itself is involved with the popups, or if they're caused
by something else (such as is covered in the next item, below).
But you can tell if you're infected by VX2 itself by searching for the
"VX2.dll" file on your system. If it's there, you got bit.
You can supposedly fully uninstall the software by following the
instructions at http://www.vx2.cc/uninstall.html . And the VX2 site also
offers a way for you to request that any data already collected from you
be deleted (see http://www.vx2.cc/delete.html ). But requesting info
deletion involves providing VX2 with personal information, so I wouldn't
submit a request unless you're sure you were infected--- i.e. you found
the VX2 software on your system.
I assume future versions of tools like PestPatrol (a LangaList
advertiser; http://www.pestpatrol.com/promo/langa/0102.asp ) and Ad-
Aware ( http://www.lavasof.usa.com ) will detect and remove VX2, but for
now, it's a good idea to take a look for yourself.>>
<<"Spyware At Its Worst"
Hi Fred, I know how you and the majority of your readers like
to protect their privacy, so I thought you might find the
following article of great interest. I run a games community
site and a number of our members started complaining about ads
popping up while they were browsing our forums, even though we
have no banners or ad code on the forums. We were totally
baffled as to why this started to happen, until we read this
article http://www.poenews.com/inhouse/vx2.htm Not only is it
a blatant invasion of privacy but the offending parties
attempts to cover it up and hide behind carefully written
disclaimers is laughable.--- Stephen McNabb
Wow. It seems that at least one of the culprits is "VX2," a kind of
"foistware/spyware" that piggybacks on other software you may choose to
download. The VX2 spyware installs silently and then monitors your
"clickstream" as you navigate around the web, sending information about
your activities and your PC to the VX2 corporation.
The VX2 site ( http://www.vx2.cc ) does not tell you which software is
foisting the VX2 on you; it's hard to unravel it all. It's also unclear
whether VX2 by itself is involved with the popups, or if they're caused
by something else (such as is covered in the next item, below).
But you can tell if you're infected by VX2 itself by searching for the
"VX2.dll" file on your system. If it's there, you got bit.
You can supposedly fully uninstall the software by following the
instructions at http://www.vx2.cc/uninstall.html . And the VX2 site also
offers a way for you to request that any data already collected from you
be deleted (see http://www.vx2.cc/delete.html ). But requesting info
deletion involves providing VX2 with personal information, so I wouldn't
submit a request unless you're sure you were infected--- i.e. you found
the VX2 software on your system.
I assume future versions of tools like PestPatrol (a LangaList
advertiser; http://www.pestpatrol.com/promo/langa/0102.asp ) and Ad-
Aware ( http://www.lavasof.usa.com ) will detect and remove VX2, but for
now, it's a good idea to take a look for yourself.>>
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