[LINK] Excitable Nanny & Scumware

[Rick Welykochy]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 jeff.evans@dsd.vic.gov.au wrote:

> Scumware Advertising
> Here's more news about advertising software which defaces your Web pages
> with colored hyperlinks to advertisers sites. MSNBC has a story not unlike
> our own, earlier coverage of that issue. As expected, a strong backlash to
> this kind of advertising has emerged, dubbing the plug-ins and programs
> which do this "scumware". Sure enough, Scumware.com tells you how to detect
> these programs, how to disable them, and how to complain to advertisers who
> use them. There's also a list of good-guy advertisers who have discontinued
> the use of such advertising. This should be of concern to all content
> producers, since the programs wreak havoc with your carefully
> color-coordinated Web pages, possibly violating your copyright in the
> process.
> MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/news/618966.asp
> Scumware.com: http://www.scumware.com/

Interesting. Once again, only MS/IE running on Windows can be infected
with scumware. I wonder which straw will break the back of the hapless
Windows user?


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