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| 278945 | 2004-10-07 11:58:00 | People, Most of us understand at least vaguley the purpose of: trojan, phone dialer, zombie creator for uploading spam/dns attacks. virus to destroy computer/data. What is the real purpose behind "downloaders" apart from eating data caps? Why? just found and destroyed one. wasnt there yesteday. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 278946 | 2004-10-07 12:04:00 | Not sure if this is relevant: grc.com |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 278947 | 2004-10-07 12:06:00 | Quote from above link: "I see. So now my private information — which was obtained by RealNetworks during a SECURE PURCHASE TRANSACTION with an explicit commitment for security, privacy, and secrecy — is being sent back to Real — months later — "in the clear" with no security, every time I download arbitrary files from the Internet using their utility — along with the full name of the file I downloaded and the unique ID that could be used to identify my computer." |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 278948 | 2004-10-07 12:19:00 | I don't think thats what he was referring to but was a damn interesting read,Just more reason not to let any apps developed by Real Network infect a comp. | metla (154) | ||
| 278949 | 2004-10-07 12:27:00 | > Quote from above link: > > "I see. So now my private information — which was > obtained by RealNetworks during a SECURE PURCHASE > TRANSACTION with an explicit commitment for security, > privacy, and secrecy — is being sent back to Real — > months later — "in the clear" with no security, every > time I download arbitrary files from the Internet > using their utility — along with the full name of the > file I downloaded and the unique ID that could be > used to identify my computer." Ok, I can figure out what neighbourhood it came from, But not which side is using it. Thanks for the article. I would say others a deliberatly using said metheods for ? D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 278950 | 2004-10-07 12:32:00 | Metla, It explained the purpose of the bug (Type) and helped me figure out whence it came. But not which side was using it. Price of curiosity. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 278951 | 2004-10-07 12:32:00 | BBC Recommended as "clean" Real Player a couple of months ago: uk.real.com www.bbc.co.uk |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 278952 | 2004-10-07 12:33:00 | The real purpose of download managers? to make money of course. How do you make money? Come up with something everyone wants,Give it away to anyone who wants it then when you have built up a clientel in the millions lease out advertising space on your "killer app" |
metla (154) | ||
| 278953 | 2004-10-07 12:38:00 | Metla, Knowing know basically how they work I can think of many less mundane uses for such. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 278954 | 2004-10-07 12:40:00 | Keep in mind that the highly regarded download managers are not as devious as the real networks software as described in that article,there is plenty of money to be made just by serving up a few adds. | metla (154) | ||
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