Re: FirstLook.com pop-up application; installed via SP?
From: blink (blink@blink.com)
Date: 09/02/02
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From: blink <blink@blink.com> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:00:19 -0700
Here is another quote from that thread:
Darin: "I have to admit that I’m really bothered by possibilities that
this thing represents. Last Monday (Aug. 26) it suddenly started showing
up on a PC that I was trying to setup. Two days ago I wiped out a PC,
installed everything fresh and used windows update to install everything
except “Windows Automatic Updating” and SP3 (This is what I had done on
the first PC). I left the PC logged on as administrator for the last day
and a half or so and FirstLook did NOT install itself."
Check it out at
http://www.computing.net/networking/wwwboard/forum/8981.html
or don't, it might challenge your faith.
In article <uK0zkDYUCHA.2684@tkmsftngp08>, hesterloli@hotmail.com
says...
> 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
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