Re: Req: info on IP range popup ad software supposedly called "Extreme Marketing"

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 12/30/02 

From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:45:05 GMT

In article <MPG.187782ae7b53bf1398969a@192.168.42.131>,
Bruce Lane <SpammersAreVermin@dev.nul> wrote:
>In article <3e0dd29d.113407291@localhost>, despam@houston.despamrr.com
>says...
>
>> "This is even better," he said. "You don't
>> have to be on a Web site at all. You can just
>> have your computer on, connected to the
>> Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and,
>> bam, this program detects your presence and up
>> pops the message on your screen, past firewalls,
>> past anti-spam programs, past anything.
>
> <splorrff!>
>
> Yeah, right. Sure thing, Ralsky. Is that why I see 'blocked port'
>entries in my firewall log every time someone tries to hit me with one of
>those stupid things?

Although it may be trivial to block these things, I'll bet that 50-75% of
Windows users don't block it. The folks who read this newsgroup are not
typical PC users, we're savvy and know how to protect ourselves. You need
to put yourselves in the place of clueless users who don't know any better.

These pop-ups are undoubtedly showing up on 10's of thousands of PC's every
day. I have no idea what level of response they get, but spammers
generally don't need very good response levels, because their costs are so
tiny. 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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