Invasion of Privacy-Spyware
"Mark" <[email protected]>
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Original Message;
Please write your Representatives about these spyware (scumware) Privacy Invading companies to put a stop to this
At the end of this email is a link to download a program free of charge to scan your hardrive(s) for all known Spyware and most of you will
hopefully be shocked at what it finds sitting there (unknown to you) sending information about your surfing habits to these companies, i.e.,
What websites you visit, what you buy, litterally ever thing you do on the internet is sent back to the "Privacy Invading" spyware companies!!!
Also, if any of you are using Gator software for filling forms, Uninstall it, it is FULL of spyware!!! I use a form filling program that is better than
Gator and RESPECTS my privacy. Just email me and I'll send you that link.
To: Governmental Officials of the United States,
cc: 10,000+ email addresses
Re: Spyware - Invasion of Privacy
I have a question concerning spyware being put on someones computer without that persons KNOWLEDGE or CONSENT and yet, when it
comes to emails (which is NOT concealed from the recipient unlike spyware), Congress passes laws against sending emails to someone
"without that persons permission" but does nothing about scum/privacy invading companies like the one below placing cookies on a private
citizens computer to "SPY" on their Internet surfing??? Why doesn't your office or one of our branches of government do something about this
"Invasion of Privacy" practice???
Respectfully,
Mark
Follow up on other spyware companies:
valueclick.com
clickagents.com
The information below pertains to this perticular scumware company:
Hitbox.com
Whois Information:
Domain Name: HITBOX.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: NS1.HITBOX.COM
Name Server: NS2.HITBOX.COM
Updated Date: 05-nov-2001
(Please read the following information carefully as it says what this sites main objective is and proves my point as mentioned above).
HTTP://Hitbox.com's HTML Code
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
Proxy-Connection: close
Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) PHP/4.1.2 mod_oas/4.64b
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 14:24:52 GMT
Connection: close
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<HEAD>
<TITLE>HitBox - The Leader in Real-Time Web Analytics, offering web site analysis, statistics, web site traffic analytics, free monitoring, log file
analysis tools, free reports, traffic analyzer, reporting and website analytics outsourcing.</TITLE>
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<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="Web site analysis, Web traffic analysis, Traffic analysis, Web analysis, Web analytics, Web
statistics, Web site statistics, Site statistics, HitBox, WebSideStory, Web tracking, Web logs, Log file, Web trend, Web marketing, Site
monitoring, Web Log Analysis, web server log analysis, web analysis tools, web analysis reports, web traffic monitoring, Web site traffic analysis,
web traffic reporting, web traffic statistics, web traffic analyzer, web statistics software, web server statistics, web statistics tools, web log
analyzer, web log analysis, web server log analysis, Web Analysis Outsourcing, Web site monitoring, Web trends, Web marketing, Web site
marketing">
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="HitBox offers web site traffic analysis, web site analytics, statistics, monitoring, log file analysis
tools, reports, traffic analyzer, reporting and website analytics outsourcing.">
<META NAME="DISTRIBUTION" CONTENT="global">
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<META NAME="Rating" CONTENT="general">
<meta http-equiv="pics-label" content='(pics-1.1
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height=1 alt="" border=0></td>
<td class="mheader" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top" width=359>Point. Click. Profit.</font><SUP>
<FONT face="arial, verdana, helvetica" SIZE=1>SM</FONT></SUP><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/blank.gif" width=1
height=1 border=0><br><font face="arial, verdana, helvetica" size=3><b>E-business Intelligence At Your Fingertips</b></font><table border=
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<td><p>Today you can get detailed, <b>real-time information</b>
about the behavior of your online visitors just by accessing the Internet. According to the Aberdeen Group, Forrester, and META Group, <b>
WebSideStory is the market leader for outsourced Web analytics</b>.</p></td>
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<td> </td>
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<h1 style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
Arial;">Web site Analysis, Web traffic analysis monitoring, Web site Analytics and Web server log analysis tools</h1>
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<tr><tr>
<td></td>
<td colspan=3> <b>News</b><br><img
src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/blank.gif" width=5 height=1 border=0><br><img
src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/black.gif" width=220 height=1 border=0></td>
</tr><tr>
<td width=5><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/blank.gif" width=1 height=3
border=0></td></tr><tr>
<td width=5></td><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/blank.gif" width=5
height=1 border=0></td>
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width="192" height="79" alt="" border="0"></td>
</tr><tr>
<td width=5><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/blank.gif" width=5 height=12
border=0></td></tr><tr>
<td width=5><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/blank.gif" width=5 height=1
border=0></td>
<td valign="top"><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/blank.gif" width=3
height=3 border=0><br><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/_small_arrow.gif" width=11 height=11 border=0></td>
<td> </td>
<td>Hawaiian Airlines driving online ticket sales with WebSideStory</td>
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<td width=5><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/blank.gif" width=5 height=3
border=0></td></tr><tr>
<td width=5><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/blank.gif" width=5 height=1
border=0></td>
<td valign="top"><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/blank.gif" width=3
height=3 border=0><br><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/_small_arrow.gif" width=11 height=11 border=0></td>
<td> </td>
<td>StatMarket: Branding on the Web takes hold</td>
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</td></tr><tr>
<td bgcolor="#000000" colspan=3><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/blank.gif" width=1 height=1 alt=""
border=0></td>
</tr><tr>
<td bgcolor="#cccccc" height=12 colspan=2>
<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=770>
<tr>
<td><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/blank.gif" width=8 height=1 border=
0><b> E-business Solutions</b></td></tr></table>
</td></tr><tr>
<td bgcolor="#000000" colspan=3><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/blank.gif" width=1 height=1 alt=""
border=0></td>
</tr></table>
<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tr><td>
<h2 style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial;">We offer Web site analysis tools, Web traffic analysis, analytics,
statistics, Web site statistics, tracking, logs, Log file, Web Site monitoring, web server log analysis, web analysis reports, Web site traffic
analysis, monitoring, reporting, web traffic statistics, analyzer, web server statistics software, tools, web server log analysis, analyzer, Web
Analysis Outsourcing and Web site monitoring.</h2>
<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=8 width=770>
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<td valign="top"><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/n_arrow_blu.gif" width=
11 height=11 alt="" border=0 hspace=5 vspace=3></td>
<td width=120 valign="top"><b>HitBox Enterprise</b><br>E-business intelligence for
sophisticated needs</td>
<td valign="top"><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/
_small_arrow_commerce.gif" width=11 height=11 alt="" border=0 hspace=5 vspace=3></td>
<td width=120 valign="top"><b>HitBox Commerce</b><br>Identify customer shopping
patterns in real-time</td>
<td valign="top"><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/_small_arrow_pro.gif"
width=11 height=11 alt="" border=0 hspace=5 vspace=3></td>
<td width=125 valign="top"><b>HitBox Professional</b><br>Web traffic analysis for small
and mid-sized businesses</td>
<td valign="top"><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/
_small_arrow_benchmarker.gif" width=11 height=11 alt="" border=0 hspace=5 vspace=3></td>
<td width=134 valign="top"><b>HitBox Benchmarker</b><br>Emulate successes, avoid
mistakes of industry peers</td>
<td valign="top"><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/n_arrow_stat.gif" width=
11 height=11 alt="" border=0 hspace=5 vspace=3></td>
<td width=125 valign="top"><b>HitBoxCentral</b><br>All your Web site needs in one
place<br>
<font size=1>[formerly HitBox.com]</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>
<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%"><tr>
<td width="100%" valign="top"><img src="http://www.websidestory.com/images/black.gif" width="100%" height=1
alt="" border=0></td>
</tr></table>
<table width=770 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5><tr valign="top" align="center"><td><font size=1>
© 1996 - 2002 <a href="http://www.hitbox.com"></a>. All Rights Reserved.<br>
<a href="http://www.dealspages.com/">Optimization by Indyzen Inc</a>.
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In closing, if the above information doesn't "clearly" convey "Invasion of Privacy" on private citizens, then the "Invasion of Privacy" policy is a
farce!
I scanned a friends computer yesterday using a spyware program and found 88!!! different spyware cookies on his hard drive.
Thank You for your time,
Mark
Here is the link to download the FREE software (that I have been personally using for a few years):
www.lavasoftusa.com