Scumware knocks out 2 anti-spyware sites.

[BoB]

From the Langa newsletter:

According to the evidence, two of the most important
Web sites in the battle against scumware have been
pressured (for the moment) into taking down
information on the insidious parasite **IEPlugin.**
One of these sites is http://security.kolla.de , the
people who bring you Spybot Search & Destroy. Their
http://security.kolla.de/kbase.php?lang=en&sbi=spybot
s&kbase=ieplugin page on IEPlugin has, for the
present, disappeared altogether. The other site is
Andrew Clover's http://doxdesk.com/ . On his
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/IEPlugin.html page on
IEPlugin he now has only the short message, "IEPlugin
is a parasite I can't tell you about, until I can get
back to Germany and work out a legal response to its
manufacturers. Sorry about that."

http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#ieplugin

BoB
For the duration, my address is fake.

[siljaline]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:16:26 -0400, BoB <rhoward@gonefishing.com> wrote:

>From the Langa newsletter:
>
>According to the evidence, two of the most important
>Web sites in the battle against scumware have been
>pressured (for the moment) into taking down
>information on the insidious parasite **IEPlugin.**
>One of these sites is http://security.kolla.de , the
>people who bring you Spybot Search & Destroy. Their
>http://security.kolla.de/kbase.php?lang=en&sbi=spybot
>s&kbase=ieplugin page on IEPlugin has, for the
>present, disappeared altogether. The other site is
>Andrew Clover's http://doxdesk.com/ . On his
>http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/IEPlugin.html page on
>IEPlugin he now has only the short message, "IEPlugin
>is a parasite I can't tell you about, until I can get
>back to Germany and work out a legal response to its
>manufacturers. Sorry about that."
>
>http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#ieplugin
>
>BoB
>For the duration, my address is fake.


BoB,

This URL is still up:
http://www.safer-networking.org/inde...ybots-ieplugin


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siljaline

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because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_