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Synthetic Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: under your rug, Insane since: Jul 2001	posted 04-12-2002 03:50 brief info: TopText, a program (written by eZula, Inc. - Ezula.com that highlights keywords on your site and creates links via dhtml to a paying competitor. This plugin comes packaged with KaZa so over 2 million people have it. When a surfer is infected with the program and he types in "data recovery" on any search engine and goes to your site, the words "data" or "recovery" are highlighted. The highlights are a link to whoever paid for the for the link. So they click on it and they are off your site! How to stop this More info can be found at these sites: scumware.com thiefware.com [This message has been edited by Synthetic (edited 04-12-2002).]
mr.maX Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Belgrade, Serbia Insane since: Sep 2000	posted 04-12-2002 07:05 We had a few discussions about spyware that comes with various programs and TopText was one of them. Anyway, you can get rid of all spyware that you may have on your computer with the help of LavaSoft Ad-Aware...
Dark Neurotic (0) Inmate Newly admitted	posted 04-12-2002 13:46 Yep, best darn program out there. Dark

Preserved Topic: TopText - Anyone heard about this program?\$

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Synthetic
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: under your rug,
Insane since: Jul 2001

posted 04-12-2002 03:50

brief info:

TopText, a program (written by eZula, Inc. - Ezula.com that highlights keywords on your site and creates links via dhtml to a paying competitor. This plugin comes packaged with KaZa so over 2 million people have it.

When a surfer is infected with the program and he types in "data recovery" on any search engine and goes to your site, the words "data" or "recovery" are highlighted. The highlights are a link to whoever paid for the for the link. So they click on it and they are off your site! How to stop this

More info can be found at these sites:
scumware.com
thiefware.com

[This message has been edited by Synthetic (edited 04-12-2002).]

mr.maX
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Belgrade, Serbia
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted 04-12-2002 07:05

We had a few discussions about spyware that comes with various programs and TopText was one of them. Anyway, you can get rid of all spyware that you may have on your computer with the help of LavaSoft Ad-Aware...

Dark
Neurotic (0) Inmate
Newly admitted

posted 04-12-2002 13:46

Yep, best darn program out there.

Dark