Re: FirstLook.com pop-up application; installed via SP?

From: George Hester (hesterloli@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/01/02 

From: "George Hester" <hesterloli@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 02:30:30 -0400

You are determined to believe that Microsoft gave it to you. That is fine.
You will get it again I am sure. Not from Microsoft but hey if that's where
you think it came from then Oh boy you have the inside scoop on
FirstLook.com. I am not an expert on what gets installed by ServicePack 3
but don't you think something so obvious as a Popup after installing that
Service Pack would have been reported by at least one soul in the 15,000,000
people that have installed it? No? 

--
George Hester
______________________________
"blink" <blink@blink.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.17dae6fe7a113cb098974b@msnews.microsoft.com...
> I guess you have the inside scoop on the service packs, as you're so
> unequivocal about it.
>
> And I agree with you, if they did install it themselves, MS should
> "maybe consider making some security enhancements that give us better
> control over this type of thing." You said their response would be "we
> do", which I can't make any sense of, but whatever.
>
>
> In article <O6c6H4RUCHA.3924@tkmsftngp12>, hesterloli@hotmail.com
> says...
> > Hocum.  It is not put in by a Microsoft Service pack.  You picked it up
in
> > your Web browsing behavior.  I sure hope that Microsoft does NOT do
anything
> > about it other then maybe making some security enhancements that give us
> > better control over this type of thing.  But their response would be,
"we
> > do!."
> >
> > --
> > George Hester
> > ______________________________
> > "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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