Review of PestScan

[Data64]

The Register has a review of PestScan which seems like an Online
promotional stunt for PestPatrol.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/31945.html

data64

[Randall Bart]

'Twas Fri, 25 Jul 2003 03:25:46 GMT when all alt.privacy.spyware stood in
awe as Data64 <me@privacy.net> uttered:

>The Register has a review of PestScan which seems like an Online
>promotional stunt for PestPatrol.
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/31945.html

It's an ActiveX control. I'll bet the first message is "PestScan found
your computer has the following vulnerability: ActiveX is enabled".

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[Jay T. Blocksom]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 16:43:49 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, Randall Bart
<Barticus@att.spam.net> wrote:
>
> 'Twas Fri, 25 Jul 2003 03:25:46 GMT when all alt.privacy.spyware stood in
> awe as Data64 <me@privacy.net> uttered:
>
> >The Register has a review of PestScan which seems like an Online
> >promotional stunt for PestPatrol.
> >http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/31945.html
>
> It's an ActiveX control.
[snip]

Oh, wonderful. So now they are being actively malicious.

But I suppose this is to be expected of spammers.

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