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Yahoo! is now using spyware???
Name: Fuerza Date: February 15, 2007 at 05:55:41 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: Intel P4 3.04Ghz/2048 Cor Product: MSI 865PE-Neo2-PFS Platin
Comment:
I'm posting here as it seems to me to be a security issue. I, not unlike many others, use Yahoo! email since it is free. In order to tie these two together, I also use PeerGuardian to keep out "undesireables". Recently, I have noticed that when I click on Yahoo! links, to either read my email or do anything at the Yahoo! website, I am getting a block message from PG that "Net Sentry Corp" is being blocked - like every couple of seconds. It's crazy!! I did my homework and learned that Net Sentry Corp is not a "nice" company. It seems as thought Yahoo! has allowed this spyware company to attach itself to MANY of its links. Many times I cannot read my email for extended periods of time during any given day. Is there any good way to circumvent this and still be able to read my email uninterrupted - short of allowing Net Sentry Corp access to my computer. Any insight or good suggestions are welcomed. Thanks...
Name: capt Date: February 15, 2007 at 08:21:04 Pacific
Reply:
The following comes from a review of Peerguardian; "Not good for use with general internet traffic...intended for use ONLY with P2P filesharing programs. Use with web browsing produces undesirable browsing results (it blocks a lot of safe servers associated with many safe and well-traffic-ed websites)."
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