I didn't even notice THEM at first, but after a while I began seeing more and more of these strange looking links in my browser. They have a thick yellow line under them and when you hover over them their background turn yellow too. Then I started to see a patern, on every page I visited the words "computer", "win" and "online shopping" (and probably a lot of others) were linked this way. A lot of these links linked to IBM and a lot of them to some online gambling site. Then it hit me: these are SMARTTAGS!!!
I clicked on one and there even was a fancy looking (XP theme???) popup which offered me some options. At this point I was shocked, WHAT THE HELL... did M$ do somekind of secret upgrade of my IE or something??? No, that can't be it, they just decided not to implement smarttags in XP yet. Well then, if it is not in IE, then it has to be somekind of service running in Windows. Ctrl-Alt-Del......AHA!!! What is that "Ezulamain" thing I see there?
So I killed this "Ezulamain" app and gone where the smarttags. I restarted my machine, and "Ezulamain" was back again! Then I though, maybe this is a joke, or maybe it is some kind of spam. I searched the net for "Ezula", and I found www.ezula.com
So, bottomline, this is no joke. There is actually a company that devellops this program and there proud of it! No I don't mind that, but what I do mind is the fact that some piece of SH!T software installed it without my permission, because I sure as hell didn't install it myself!!!
Do any of you have this proggie installed without your knowledge? Or does anyone know which program installs it? They can't just do that can they?
Thanks for reading this,
Xalista
EDIT : well, at least it deinstalls whitout much effort. It is listed as "HOTText" in
the installed software list.
I clicked on one and there even was a fancy looking (XP theme???) popup which offered me some options. At this point I was shocked, WHAT THE HELL... did M$ do somekind of secret upgrade of my IE or something??? No, that can't be it, they just decided not to implement smarttags in XP yet. Well then, if it is not in IE, then it has to be somekind of service running in Windows. Ctrl-Alt-Del......AHA!!! What is that "Ezulamain" thing I see there?
So I killed this "Ezulamain" app and gone where the smarttags. I restarted my machine, and "Ezulamain" was back again! Then I though, maybe this is a joke, or maybe it is some kind of spam. I searched the net for "Ezula", and I found www.ezula.com
So, bottomline, this is no joke. There is actually a company that devellops this program and there proud of it! No I don't mind that, but what I do mind is the fact that some piece of SH!T software installed it without my permission, because I sure as hell didn't install it myself!!!
Do any of you have this proggie installed without your knowledge? Or does anyone know which program installs it? They can't just do that can they?
Thanks for reading this,
Xalista
EDIT : well, at least it deinstalls whitout much effort. It is listed as "HOTText" in
the installed software list.
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