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Message-ID: <410A65A7.1080600@doxdesk.com>
From: and-bugtraq at doxdesk.com (Andrew Clover)
Subject: Cool Web Search

Dave Horsfall <dave@...sfall.org> wrote:

> Not really "new", in the scheme of things.  Over 30 years ago, some bored
> prgrammer wrote something for one of the mainframes of the day (ICL?
> IBM? Burroughs?) called "Robin Hood and Friar Tuck".

Yeah, I was aware of this story; the Jargon File attributes it to Moto 
staff working on Xerox CP-V. A few Win32 viruses copied the idea 
(notably Gemini, see Virus Bulletin Sep02); this is what I meant by 
parasite vendors stealing ideas from VXers.

The first parasite I saw using this trick was CommonName/Comwiz, but the 
recent HuntBar/WinTools takes the biscuit by installing two processes, 
one service and one BHO, all looking out for each other. Charming 
behaviour for software purporting to be a search enhancer from a 
'legitimate' company, eh?

I preferred viruses. You knew where you stood with viruses. They printed 
a quote from a TV show and wiped your discs, you laughed at the funny 
gag and reinstalled, everyone was happy. (Well, ish.)

Malware attaching its tentacles onto your machine to make a few dollars 
from advertising and spam is just so much more offensively sleazy.

-- 
Andrew Clover
mailto:and@...desk.com
http://www.doxdesk.com/