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FTC Shuts Down Pop-Up Extortion Firm
An anonymous reader writes "The FTC has shut down D Squared, a company that's been spamming via the Windows Messenger Pop-Up Service. In some cases, ads would pop-up every 10 minutes, and only advertised a $30 product that disabled similar pop-up ads. The FTC is slamming the extortion gauntlet on them. Interestingly, the FTC only caught onto all this because one of their own commissioners was among those getting spammed."
From the article:
"POP-UP ADVERTISING is a fact of life," said Howard Beales
Uh, no it's not Howard. I use Mozilla with pop-up supression as do thousands of others. $30? Try free.
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Well, I personally use the ZoneAlarm Pop-Up Stopper...very handy and nice prog. Works like a charm.
So, to pay $30 for a pop-up stopper that's already incorporated in another prog you bought? - I'd say is ludicrous...
But, to pay for a prog at all - when you can go Open-Source and get better results is just as insane...
I use M$ for school (VS.net) - and games. Other than that I would use Linux exclusively!
...goes the weasel. LOL!!
It's free. I haven't had a non-requested pop-up in over a year since I switched. And as an added benefit none of my code (web development) needs to be tested for Netscape (I do have to test for IE but since most of the people who use my software use IE, I hear errors first from them).
And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply
So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why
He said you look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do
So I took off my hat I said imagine that, huh, me working for you
woah!
Chorus:
Sign Sign everywhere a sign
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign
V2
And the sign said anybody caught trespassing would be shot on sight
So I jumped on the fence and yelled at the house, Hey! what gives you the right
To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in
If God was here, he'd tell you to your face, man you're some kinda sinner
Repeat Chorus:
Bridge:
Now, hey you Mister! can't you read, you got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat
You can't even watch, no you can't eat, you ain't suppose to be here
Sign said you got to have a membership card to get inside Uh!
V3
And the sign said everybody welcome, come in, kneel down and pray
But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all,
I didn't have a penny to pay, so I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign
I said thank you Lord for thinking about me, I'm alive and doing fine
mozilla besides blocking popups:
t p://illmob.org/0day/internet%20explorer%20explo its/
stops unrequested moving/resizing of windows
stops unrequested raising/lowering of windows
stops unrequested hiding of status bar
stops changing of status bar text
can stop image swaps
not vulnerable to IE exploits
http://info.astreet.com/article.php?sid=263
ht
http://www.netprouk.com/Exploit/
why the fuck do i need a google bar? i need leaner and meaner not a jenga puzzle of software layered one on top of another in an attempt to secure the unsecurable.
my mcse cohort runs: software firewall, antivirus, antikeylogger, antipopup, googlebar, spybot, adaware(neither catches all), password protect, and ntfs encryption.
he still catches a virus, and any given moment, can't tell you if his machine is completely free from viruses or having been hacked.
did i mention that the system takes 5 minutes to boot?