Trojan Wars Part II:



I`m Back, some what, after having about a 100 hour of my labor stolen from me. Guess what is on my mind this morning as yet another virus scan runs in the background.

So half-way through my battle I am doing web based virus scans. I do the PC-Cillan scan and the Norton web based scan and while I am looking for them I keep seeing a web based scan called StopSign.

A web-based scan works this way. You download an ActiveX Korneal that allows the web site access to run the application over the Internet on your computer.

But this, so called, web scan downloads an execute file and wants to run it on my system. This does not ring true. So I call their 1-800 number just to hear if there is a real phone at the end of the number, which there is. But that tells me very little.

So I do a search on the web and I start finding all these sites talking about this produce and how it is not a web based scan but a scam that installs their produce on your system and uninstalls all other virus detection software without your permission. Which explains why the virus detection software products, that I pay for and trust, treat it as a virus. What would you call it?

What kind of slims take advantage of other people`s tragedy to make a profit? Okay, besides doctors and funeral homes and lawyers and dentists. Well at least animators don`t prey on people in the market place.