On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:32:49 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>,
SPAMBLOCKER@BLOCKEDTOAVOIDSPAM.com (Spammay Blockay) wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> I'm certainly open to the idea that there is a virus out there.
> But... has anybody else *cared* if this software were connecting to
> gemtek or yahoo? Perhaps it's doing this, and nobody's been concerned
> by it? That's possible, too. No need to say I'm blind to the
> various possibilities.
>
[snip]

This, or something very much like it, was reported previously. See:

<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=sz9_a.165%24v9.82%40nwrddc01.gnilink.n et>

and follow the thread.

At the time, I was skeptical; but the evidence appears to be mounting.

--

Jay T. Blocksom
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Appropriate Technology, Inc.
usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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