Re: FirstLook.com pop-up application; installed via SP?
From: blink (blink@blink.com)
Date: 09/01/02
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From: blink <blink@blink.com> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:41:57 -0700
Ad Aware didn't remove it.
Javascript cannot install an app on my computer (right?) Two full
applications are installed, both visible in the control panels
Install/Remove Programs.
It's not the typical popup. However it got on my system, and many other
peoples systems, it could be doing anything, without my knowledge. Two
fully installed applications that arrived from either service packs or
from... an IE vulnerability? A vulnerability of .NET? I don't know,
that's why I'm asking.
Don't any of you realize how significant this is? How many times have
you found two complete applications installed on your system that just
appeared out of nowhere? Is this common for everyone else?
In article <OSXhUKSUCHA.3620@tkmsftngp08>, gunshyguy@hotmail.com says...
> FirstLook.com attempts to run 7 java scripts and several ads when you hit the site, or you went to another site tied to firstlook. Probably put hooks in your system. You might be able to clean it with AdAware v5.83 (free).
> Install and update with the reffile.zip removes all known ad related links
> http://www.networkingfiles.com/Cookie/downloads/adawaredownload.htm
> http://64.246.30.9:81/networkingfiles812/cookie/reffile.zip
>
> Get at popup stopper. I recommend http://www.adsubtract.com/
>
>
> "blink" <blink@blink.com> wrote in message news:MPG.17da95625cb50971989748@msnews.microsoft.com...
> > Quite a number of people are getting a mysterious application installed
> > by a company called FirstLook.com without their foreknowledge or
> > permission. It is getting installed as a application, and is listed in
> > the control panel Add/Remove Programs section as "FirstLook Portal".
> > Each day when an infected machine is started, IE opens and displays
> > their ad. People have reported difficulty in uninstalling it; other
> > programs getting disabled; and data being transmitted over broadband
> > connections when it appears.
> >
> > There is a thread here discussing the FirstLook.com invasion:
> > http://www.computing.net/networking/wwwboard/forum/8981.html
> >
> > No one has been able to figure out where it comes from; but one likely
> > candidate seems to be that it's in one of the recent Microsoft service
> > packs. I sure didn't install anything other than the urgent SP's from
> > Windows update, including Win2K sp3, the IE update that was available
> > last week, and the Media Player one. I've had this for about a week, and
> > have not installed anything since it appeared. I use Norton AntiVirus on
> > all email and it does a weekly scan of the system.
> >
> > I've written to FirstLook.com and all they say is "The Firstlook Service
> > was delivered to your computer when you downloaded any number of
> > popular, free software applications via the internet". I don't think
> > so.
> >
> > I believe that the application that FirstLook.com is installing without
> > permission represents a new low in intrusive behavior by a firm. And it
> > really worries me that this sort of rubbish is going to become part of
> > our lives. Even if the FirstLook Portal is not installed by one of the
> > Microsoft service packs, at the very least Microsoft should contact
> > these idiots, determine the mode of distribution, and either patch the
> > exposure or in some other way find a way to put the brakes on it.
>
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