Re: FirstLook.com/about.aspx UNSUBSCRIBE

From: blink (blink@blink.com)
Date: 09/02/02 

From: blink <blink@blink.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 18:42:30 -0700

Dan:

I quoted that FirstLook.com statement in my original post:

"The Firstlook Service was delivered to your computer when you
downloaded any number of popular, free software applications via the
internet".

It's not true. That's the point. I didn't download any number of
popular, free software applications via the internet". OK?

I don't think you're going to be able to shed a whole lot of additional
insight into this matter...

In article <uyUU2EXUCHA.1648@tkmsftngp13>, gunshyguy@hotmail.com says...
> http://www.firstlook.com/about.aspx
>
> Description of how you got it, etc...
>
> "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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