__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Tuesday 22 August 2006 10:33 \__
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> AOL recently launched a new service/product called Active Virus Shield
> (Security Toolbar) which received some controversial press [1]. It
> comes with the free Kaspersky AV technology. By all reports the
> application itself could not be found to serve adware (testing done by
> external parties). But that is not what this article is about. It is
> the end user license agreement (EULA) which has raised some eyebrows.
> We find it treading adware territory, and here is why as we show via
> the interesting portions from the EULA...
>
> [quotes EULA]
>
> Users of this "free" service from AOL may not block, disable, or
> otherwise effect any advertising, advertisement banner window, tabs,
> links to other sites and services, or other features that constitute an
> integral part of the Software.
>
> or (ix) authorize or assist any third party to do any of the things
> described in this paragraph. So if you are already using a different
> pop-blocker (say Google Toolbar for example), you are in violation of
> this EULA because it may block advertisements that are required under
> this EULA.
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> http://www.castlecops.com/a6636-AOL_Active_Virus_Shield_Permits_Adware.html
EULA's are 'great'; As great as negligence and careless policies that treat
people as though they are just meaningless numbers.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060821/aol_search_privacy.html?.v=13
3 Leave AOL in Search-Data Fallout
If I remember correctly, one of them was a technical director. I can't
remember if he departed in shame or was sacked. It was the result of
allowing personal data of ~600,000 people leak out to the public.
Did that company slide 20% in the past month, in terms of clientbase? I hope
not...
I can sympathise owing to the following.
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060818/REPOSITORY/608180341/1013/48HOURS
AOL wants to dig for spammer's gold
Man may have buried profit at parents' home
We recently spoke about children being punished for the deceased father's
copyrights violation. Here you have the parents being punished for the
child's crime, which is far more severe. If they pull some gold off the
ground, they should lay the spammer right in casket, right inside that hole.
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