SCUMWARE! - plz read everyone!

[cyberskydive 0]

snatched this off of a forum at http://www.flashkit.com :
SCUMWARE?!?BATTLING SCUMWARE
What is Scumware? Scumware is a new breed of Internet advertising that is utterly despicable.
Scumware gets installed on a user's machine usually because it is
included with some other program,
like Kazaa or iMesh. From then on, when the user surfs the Web,
some words will appear highlighted.
These highlights are paid links that take the user to another site. They will appear whether the
Web site's owner wants them there or not. Other Scumware applications will actually replace
advertising on sites, or create extra pop-up ads that appear when the user comes to a specific
site. This is all done without the consent of the Web site owner.
Currently there are three major pieces of Scumware: Ezula's TopText, Spedia's Surf+ and Gator. You
can read more about Scumware at http://www.scumware.com.
So, how do you rid your site of Scumware? I've written a small script that detects both TopText and
Surf+ and will pop open a window warning the user that they have it.
You can insert the following JavaScript code into the main body
of any Web page. It will first try
to create to Internet Explorer objects, one for TopText and the
other from Surf+. It will then use
JavaScript to see if these objects were created. If they were, then the user has one of these. The
window.open command is used to create a new pop-up window. This will use either
"scumware-toptext.html" or "scumware-surfplus.html" as the HTML for these windows.
The script ends by setting a timer so that the check will be made two seconds later. These two
seconds are needed so that the objects have a chance to initialize
before the script starts looking
for them.

As for the two HTML pages that are needed, I recommend something like this:




Whether you know it or not, you have installed TopText, a
program that places advertising in
Web pages against the wishes of the owner of the Web site. Visit
target='_blank'>scumware.com to find out more about this software and how to get it off of your
machine.


You'll need to replace "TopText" with "Surf+" for the other HTML
file. You can find all of these
files at http://developerdispatch.com/examples/.
Another thing you may want to do is to record the number of people who visit your site with this
Scumware. You can do this by placing a counter on the pop-up HTML pages.
If you want to forget about the pop-up windows and simply redirect the user to another page that
says something like "You cannot use this site if you have TopText
or Surf+ installed." To do this,
just replace the "window.open..." command with a "this.location
= 'scumware-not-allowed.html'".
spyware at its best
C-28534
http://www.sunraydesigns.com

[cyberskydive 0]

isnt this illegal?
C-28534
http://www.sunraydesigns.com

[pyke 0]

who knows....better yet...who cares???
Keep up the good work, Cyber!!
P.S. A FULL case is in my trunk as we speak...so if you're there on Friday night...I'll be there with beer bottles!!!LOL!
Kahurangi e Mahearangi,
Pyke
NZPF A - 2584
USPA C- ?????

[Pammi 0]

Hey thanks Cyber! I'll work on getting that on my pages today/tonight!
A new page! Bi-Plane pics!

[cyberskydive 0]

thats funny- I feel like drinking a case!
My main concern here is to help people get this software off thier computer so we dont have to add this to our pages!-LOL we already have enough to do!
blues everyone!
C-28534
http://www.sunraydesigns.com