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Re: [GWL]: MS Smart Tags

At 07:10 AM 8/21/2001 -0400, you wrote:

>For a demo on what ezula appears see: ... http://www.smithfam.com/smartag.html

You'll see the yellow highlight on the page. That's how ezula works and 
appears. The ms squiggles are not enabled unless you set them up. I don't 
have an example of that.  So, if you have a website, certain words are 
highlighted (you can't see this happening unless you have kazaa installed 
on your browser) and will function as links away from your site.

I just learned this morning that there's another one called Surf+ that does 
the same thing. Apparently somebody found some porn sites linked to a kid's 
site via this one. There is a suggestion that the Bob Massa link will solve 
the surf+ problem as well. I'll let you know if this turns out to be 
false.    http://www.searchking.com/ezulakiller

The ethics of this are questionable at the best.  Software like this steals 
your visitor and alters your site beyond your control (For example, it can 
put links to porn sites on a church or children's site as equally as it can 
yours). Site owners will have to deal with this kind of problem just as 
writers have to deal with other sites "borrowing" their articles and words.

Oh yeah, if any of you use Gator for downloading and storing your 
passwords, you might want to switch to roboform http://www.roboform.com/ or 
a pencil and paper. I knew this before but was again reminded this morning 
that gator is "spyware". It sends data about your computer to the 
programmers site.

Sometimes software such as blackice defender or zonealarm will catch the 
spyware messages but sometimes not. ;-)   Just to confuse this issue, I had 
zonealarm installed on my machine but had to remove it and repair damage to 
the config.sys files. There was a major conflict that only appeared after a 
few weeks of operation. This is not uncommon with this software I'm 
told.  I can't report on blackice as I have not trialed it yet.

Hope this helps.

Doug



Douglas Green,
Freelance writing: You've got a story to tell - I can write it.
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