What Happened to Danasoft?

Jeff Wisnia

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Aug 10, 2016, 11:56:03 AM8/10/16

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I enjoyed having a fun Danasoft sign on my personal web page, but
starting about a week ago it wouldn't load anymore and when I looked at
www.Danasoft.com there was just a simple page there with no links on it.

Did someone or something force them to shut down?

AFAIK there was nothing unhealthy or illegal about what those Danasoft
signs did.

Jeff

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Les Albert

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Aug 10, 2016, 12:09:44 PM8/10/16

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On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 11:55:55 -0400, Jeff Wisnia
<Jwis...@DUMPTHIScomcast.net> wrote:

>I enjoyed having a fun Danasoft sign on my personal web page, but
>starting about a week ago it wouldn't load anymore and when I looked at
>www.Danasoft.com there was just a simple page there with no links on it.
>Did someone or something force them to shut down?
>AFAIK there was nothing unhealthy or illegal about what those Danasoft
>signs did.

Never heard of it. What is a Danasoft sign and what did it do?

Les

Jeff Wisnia

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Aug 10, 2016, 2:38:51 PM8/10/16

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If this page remains up you can see what a Danasoft sign is:

http://www.danasoft.com/customsig.php

You created your own through the Danasoft website.

You could enter up to 5 of your own one line slogans which would show
randomly as the bottom line of the sign each time the web page you put
the sign on was opened.

Once you designed the sign Danasoft sent you a small amount of html code
you could stick into the source code of a web page so the sign would
appear on that page.

The information about the viewer's IP, ISP,Operating System and Browser
all came from the viewer's computer, but gave many people a scare
thinking that somebody else knew all about their private stuff.

Jerr

Greg Goss

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Aug 11, 2016, 12:02:06 AM8/11/16

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Jeff Wisnia <Jwis...@DUMPTHIScomcast.net> wrote:

>http://www.danasoft.com/customsig.php

>The information about the viewer's IP, ISP,Operating System and Browser
>all came from the viewer's computer, but gave many people a scare
>thinking that somebody else knew all about their private stuff.

Is the sign on that page live? It's correct about Windows and Chrome,
but those are pretty much the default these days. It is wrong about
my ISP.
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Opus the Penguin

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Aug 11, 2016, 11:31:09 AM8/11/16

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Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org> wrote:

> Jeff Wisnia <Jwis...@DUMPTHIScomcast.net> wrote:
>
>>http://www.danasoft.com/customsig.php
>
>>The information about the viewer's IP, ISP,Operating System and Browser
>>all came from the viewer's computer, but gave many people a scare
>>thinking that somebody else knew all about their private stuff.
>
> Is the sign on that page live? It's correct about Windows and Chrome,
> but those are pretty much the default these days. It is wrong about
> my ISP.

It got everything right for me. Windows 7, Firefox, ISP, and IP. I pulled
it up in Chrome and it gave me the same info but with Chrome as my
browser. I wonder why it thinks you have a different ISP than you do. Do
you recognize the name of the ISP it thinks you have?

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Jeff Wisnia

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Aug 11, 2016, 4:32:26 PM8/11/16

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Greg Goss wrote:
> Jeff Wisnia <Jwis...@DUMPTHIScomcast.net> wrote:
>
>> http://www.danasoft.com/customsig.php
>
>> The information about the viewer's IP, ISP,Operating System and Browser
>> all came from the viewer's computer, but gave many people a scare
>> thinking that somebody else knew all about their private stuff.
>
> Is the sign on that page live? It's correct about Windows and Chrome,
> but those are pretty much the default these days. It is wrong about
> my ISP.
>

It is not fully correct for me either. When running SeaMonkey as my
browser it says I'm using Firefox. But since they both come from the
same group it doesn't surprise me. But when I use Firefox it gets it
correct.

When using AOL desktop it says my browser is Chrome, and when using
Internet Explorer 8 it says my browser is Mozilla/Netscape5.

Go figger...

Jeff

danny burstein

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Aug 11, 2016, 9:13:58 PM8/11/16

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In <e12bls...@mid.individual.net> Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org> writes:

>Jeff Wisnia <Jwis...@DUMPTHIScomcast.net> wrote:

>>http://www.danasoft.com/customsig.php

>>The information about the viewer's IP, ISP,Operating System and Browser
>>all came from the viewer's computer, but gave many people a scare
>>thinking that somebody else knew all about their private stuff.

If you want scary:

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

(Yes, from the very good folk at the EFF)

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Bill Turlock

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Aug 11, 2016, 11:00:51 PM8/11/16

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On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 01:13:57 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein
<dan...@panix.com> wrote:

>In <e12bls...@mid.individual.net> Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org> writes:
>
>>Jeff Wisnia <Jwis...@DUMPTHIScomcast.net> wrote:
>
>>>http://www.danasoft.com/customsig.php
>
>>>The information about the viewer's IP, ISP,Operating System and Browser
>>>all came from the viewer's computer, but gave many people a scare
>>>thinking that somebody else knew all about their private stuff.
>
>If you want scary:
>
>https://panopticlick.eff.org/
>
>(Yes, from the very good folk at the EFF)

TY!

Xho Jingleheimerschmidt

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Aug 12, 2016, 11:54:47 PM8/12/16

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On 08/11/16 18:13, danny burstein wrote:
> In <e12bls...@mid.individual.net> Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org> writes:
>
>> Jeff Wisnia <Jwis...@DUMPTHIScomcast.net> wrote:
>
>>> http://www.danasoft.com/customsig.php
>
>>> The information about the viewer's IP, ISP,Operating System and Browser
>>> all came from the viewer's computer, but gave many people a scare
>>> thinking that somebody else knew all about their private stuff.
>
> If you want scary:
>
> https://panopticlick.eff.org/
>
> (Yes, from the very good folk at the EFF)

Every time I've visited this, it says my computer is unique. Which is
odd, because I visited it multiple times from the same computer.

Xho

Lesmond

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Aug 13, 2016, 3:29:58 AM8/13/16

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It is unique to you.

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behc...@gmail.com

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Jun 18, 2020, 8:10:34 PM6/18/20

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Danasoft.com has been down for about a week here in June, 2020. Did they close down the website?

gerard....@gmail.com

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Jun 22, 2020, 5:31:47 AM6/22/20

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It "disappears" every now and then.

Mike Golch

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Aug 19, 2020, 3:39:45 PM8/19/20

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On Monday, June 22, 2020 at 5:31:47 AM UTC-4, gerard....@gmail.com wrote:
> It "disappears" every now and then.

I keep getting this,
The connection has timed out

The server at www.danasoft.com is taking too long to respond.

The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Waterfox is permitted to access the Web.