On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:26:11 +0200, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, peter krom
<jonhy@rook.com> wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> After searching through my system I Uninstalled Mozilla Firefox, this
> was aparantly the source of sending the syn to kelcos.. Now that firefox
> is no longer installed, the Syn's aren't sent anymore.
[snip]

That was near-cwertainly unnecessary; and it makes little (if any) sense,
particularly in light of your original article. Nowhere in it did you state
that the SYNs were being sent *only* when Firefox was running. And besides,
Firefox itself is *not* in any way malicious; nor is it particularly
vulnerable to attack from malware (unlike, for a very pointed example, MSIE's
susceptibility to "home page hijackers"). So why would it be "phoning home"
to Kel Ellis? No, this just doesn't add up.

I *strongly* urge you to re-examine your system *very* closely. The odds are
overwhelming that either you did not tell the full and correct story
initially, or you did *not* completely clean things up -- or both.

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