Ip Vandalism
We survived the denial of service attacks here at radio a couple of days ago. I have my own saga of dealing with internet frustration as I tried to figure out who had installed the application called clocksync on my computer. I was reading an article on the San Francisco Chronicle at the time. My friend who lives there thinks that it was the paper that took the opportunity to do that. I dunno. I will send them a copy of this entry in hopes that if they were the ones, they will fess up. Likely? I doubt it. The absence of manners in this country really amazes me.
Hello. A couple of nights ago while I was quietly going about doing research on the web I nearly had a heart attack. There was a pop up window that said something about time synch then before I could really react, it had run on my machine, and installed itself.
The upshot of this is that now I have NO time synch apparatus. I already had one that I had gotten from our National observatory. I uninstalled yours, and now I am faced with the loss of time to do the research that I did then.
Since then every time I go to a web site, I get two windows opening. One is a window that is my chosen destination. The other is a full list of suggested links for buying something.
Believe me. I have no desire for any kind of steam catapult. I am merely doing research for my writing career.
I am writing to you because I believe that it is your product that is doing this. For some reason you must think that this guerilla tactic is what you need to do to stay viable in the dog eat dog world of global information domination. Well, I consider it vandalism. If I could sue you I would.
As it is, your unethical business practice is going to rate a hit on my web log. I am sure that someone who reads my page may have a few suggestions for how I can return the favor and make your life as miserable as mine has been since you attacked me.
M. Foster
http://blogs.salon.com/0002237/
Grrrr….
As I finished uninstalling the vandal software I was redirected to a web page where I could choose if I REALLY did want to uninstall their product. Not only that, I was asked to tell them what might have caused me to want to NOT uninstall it.
I typed the following in the box clicked on send, then thought … why did I do that? I have just contributed to their being better able to slip this to someone else.
I sent you email under separate cover. You were uninvited.... a party crasher... I evicted you.
If I could I would send some kind of service denial your way. But I am not only lawful but ethical.
You are not. Have a good day.
The product name is clocksync:
Q: How much does ClockSync cost?
A: ClockSync is FREE. Since ClockSync is free to use, we need a source of revenue to stay in business - that's where Save! comes in. Save! is free software that shows you contextually relevant offers and information; proceeds from Save! are used to continually support and improve ClockSync and other great software products. When you installed ClockSync you opted-in to install Save! For more information about Save!, (link removed to avoid giving them any publicity)
Do you love the term opted-in? I set up my rant page for just this kind of bs.
3:42:35 PM 
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