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Not just the unknown companies
It's not just the "unknown" software makers who can't be trusted. I have a client who thought it would be interesting to see what's going through his network, so he grabbed a day's worth of packets. He caught some new software from a big maker (on the scale of Adobe, Microsoft and Oracle) trying to send his "registration" information. What was odd was it was transferring about 60 megabytes! He's a statistics professor, so he dug deeper and found it wasn't compressed, but it was encrypted as there were no repeating sequences of bytes. Repeated requests to this vendor have not resulted in a response.
Posted by: ometecuhtli2001   Posted on: 03/10/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Not just the unknown companies  ometecuhtli2001 | 03/10/08
Someone asked me how to "backup" Gmail  AbbydonKrafts | 03/10/08
The same with Hotmail  GuidingLight | 03/10/08
Uh, wasn't the Gmail archiver a "free add in"???  aroc | 03/14/08
Any desktop e-mail software with POP3 works  tikigawd | 03/11/08
MALWARE plain and simple.  terry flores | 03/10/08
Well put.  Glen.Manages.MVS@... | 03/10/08
Absolutely  awgiedawgie | 03/17/08
RE: The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt  johnpills | 03/10/08
If you don't want the world...  arminw | 03/11/08
Too true; Other problems, too  w_c_mead | 03/12/08
RE: The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt  lcarliner@... | 03/10/08
RE: The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt  lcarliner@... | 03/10/08
RE: The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt  WhiteBoy99 | 03/10/08
RE: The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt  adi_dwitama@... | 03/10/08
Easiest way  seanferd | 03/10/08
way way inefficient  AtlantaTerry | 03/11/08
RE: The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt  foraminut | 03/10/08
huh?  AtlantaTerry | 03/11/08
Well...  tikigawd | 03/11/08
KISS theory illustrated  john_e_fish | 03/10/08
exactly  AtlantaTerry | 03/11/08
No, you can't trust anything  tikigawd | 03/11/08
This is quite disturbing  BigThunder1 | 03/10/08
RE: The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt  c320162 | 03/10/08
All ready pulled  ucb9 | 03/10/08
Why not just use a simple email client?  kraterz | 03/10/08
RE: The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt  AnimeGirls | 03/10/08
RE: The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt  Lyassa@... | 03/10/08
RE: The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt  hpwuest@... | 03/11/08
Larry is just the messenger...  randysmith@... | 03/11/08
RE: The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt  f.farrell@... | 03/11/08
Who ya gonna trust?  GM Fedorchuk | 03/11/08
Not-so-fine print?  friedtoast@... | 03/12/08
RE: The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt  foraminut | 03/12/08
Why doesn't Google offer their own app to do this?  rushingturtle | 03/12/08
If it wasn't open source.. How could anyone have found out?  g2g591 | 03/12/08
Good point, but...  ejhonda | 03/17/08
See the G-Archiver site  zclayton2 | 03/13/08
RE: The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt  blaze1024 | 03/14/08
That's what so great about Windows  DarthRidiculous | 03/14/08
RE: The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt  ntwkguy | 03/17/08
Let me help aleviate some of your timidity  *nixFan | 03/18/08
Apparently an 'accident'  stoneyg431@... | 03/31/08

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