Sunbelt: Stay Far Away From YapBrowser

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Given this:

"180Solutions Targeting Kids"
 http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/180solutions-targeting-kids.html

...I'd be very keen to keep a sharp eye on 180Solutions.

Good job, Sunbelt -- keep up the good work.

[snip]

This is a completely worthless and, in fact, potentially dangerous application that pre-installs 180Solutions Zango and 
does nothing but apparently redirect you to a porn site. A relationship to child porn is even suggested from posts by 
Andrew Clover (who calls it the “kidporn browser”) and PaperGhost.

You can see [above] the URL “microsoft.com” is redirected to this porn page.

More worrisome is a Russian document (related to the highconvert gang) that we uncovered on April 4th which suggests 
that the YapBrowser will be used for some very nasty spyware installs.

[snip]

Much more here:
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/stay-far-away-from-yapbrowser.html

- ferg
 


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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