[ANSOL-geral][recortes] First Worm with a EULA?
Lopo de Almeida
lopo.almeida arroba sitaar.com
Sun Oct 27 01:01:01 2002
First Worm with a EULA?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/25/1636215
[0]ErikRed1488 writes "There is a new virtual postcard from Friend
Greetings, owned by [1]Permissioned Media that prompts you to install
their software to view the card. You are then presented with a EULA
granting them permission to e-mail all the Contacts in your Outlook
Address Book. Those people are presented with an e-mail from you
telling them they have a greeting card to pick up. So, this thing
spreads like a worm, but includes a EULA that 95% of users won't take
the time to read. Symantec isn't detecting this as a virus, but does
have [2]information about it on their site. In addition to the
worm-like way it spreads, it also installs spyware designed to deliver
ads to your computer. You also give them permission to install further
software any time they want. In my opinion this is completely nasty,
but it's all clearly in the EULA that you must agree to before it
installs the software."
Links
0. mailto:erikdred1488 arroba netscape.net
1. http://www.permissionedmedia.com/
2. http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/friendgreetings.html