Re: AdController

["Michael Hayes" <mhayes () pwebtech com>]

http://www.x-summary.com/tools/980609.phtml

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gregh" <chows () ozemail com au>
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 8:36 PM
Subject: AdController


> Discovered this one on my own computer by accident.
>
> Not being a person to LIKE having info of any sort randomly shot out of my
> own machine without me knowing about it, I must admit to some
consternation
> when I found a lot of "AdController" stuff on my machine. I went Googling
> and it seemed like your average
> non-nasty Ad stuff of the sort that you would expect to be removed by
Spybot
> and Adaware.
>
> So, as I run those two progs regularly, I checked for updates, ran them
both
> and this AdController wasn't picked up. Not being sure what that meant
> exactly, I decided to check out Spybot and Lavasoft web sites for info.
> None. I left them emails asking why their progs didn't pick it up, of
> course, hoping for an answer and admittedly that was only sent within the
> last 24 hours so I don't expect an answer yet. However, still curious. So
> does anyone know what AdController does, under what circumstances it runs
> etc? Seems to have been around a while.....
>
>
> Greg.
>
>
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