Re: AdController

From: Michael Hayes (mhayes_at_pwebtech.com)
Date: 10/06/03

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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:38:21 -0400

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    From: "gregh" <chows@ozemail.com.au>
    To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
    Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 8:36 PM
    Subject: AdController

    > Discovered this one on my own computer by accident.
    >
    > Not being a person to LIKE having info of any sort randomly shot out of my
    > own machine without me knowing about it, I must admit to some
    consternation
    > when I found a lot of "AdController" stuff on my machine. I went Googling
    > and it seemed like your average
    > non-nasty Ad stuff of the sort that you would expect to be removed by
    Spybot
    > and Adaware.
    >
    > So, as I run those two progs regularly, I checked for updates, ran them
    both
    > and this AdController wasn't picked up. Not being sure what that meant
    > exactly, I decided to check out Spybot and Lavasoft web sites for info.
    > None. I left them emails asking why their progs didn't pick it up, of
    > course, hoping for an answer and admittedly that was only sent within the
    > last 24 hours so I don't expect an answer yet. However, still curious. So
    > does anyone know what AdController does, under what circumstances it runs
    > etc? Seems to have been around a while.....
    >
    >
    > Greg.
    >
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