Eudora 5.0 and spyware

[Show of Force]

Eudora 5.0 contains the Cydoor spyware (www.cydoor.com).

Cydoor is active regardless of whether you are online or offline and also
regardless of whether you have registered the software. The spyware
apparently tracks each user with a unique identifier, supposedly so it can
rotate ads (wink, wink ... nudge, nudge). The spyware can be disabled with a
program such as AdAware, but regenerates itself with each subsequent use of
Eudora.

So, here's a question for Qualcomm ... why is it active for PAID and
REGISTERED users who don't see ads?

This is yet another disappointment from what once was a pretty decent app, but
is no more.

[M. Johan Broekman]

Use Adaware from Lavasoft to identify/selectively clean adware/spyware
from your system. Free at www.lavasoft.de. Recommended by Steve Gibson
and crew (check the news:grc.com/optout newsgroup.
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Best regards
Han Broekman
(Please answer to the newsgroup)

[PC Guy]

In article <8qmm4b$66j$1...@iac5.navix.net>, showo...@hotmail.com
says...

How did you determine this? I just ran Adaware from Lavasoft
(www.lavasoft.de) on a paid Eudora 5.0 and it found no traces of cydoor.

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[Jan van Aalderen (NL118X)]

"M. Johan Broekman" wrote:
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> Use Adaware from Lavasoft to identify/selectively clean adware/spyware
> from your system. Free at www.lavasoft.de. Recommended by Steve Gibson
> and crew (check the news:grc.com/optout newsgroup.
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> Best regards
> Han Broekman

Click on news:grc.com/optout causes an unauthorized and invalid -
because inaccessible - group entry to be added to my newsgrouplist.

Surfing to www.lavasoft.de crashes my system.

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Vriendelijke groet,
J. van Aalderen
Amstelveen
Kingdom of The Netherlands

[M. Johan Broekman]

Sorry if I got the newsgroup wrong. You have to set up a new news
server: grc.com. Then you can subscribe to the newsgroups there. You
can also go to the web page http://grc.com, and check out everything (je
hebt daar minstens een weekend voor nodig).

This is the URL as it appears in my Netscape 4.75 browser:
http://www.lavasoft.de/numenu.html
One of the first items on this page is AD-aware:
http://www.lavasoft.de/free.html

Veel geluk! Let us hear of your experience!

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Best regards
Han Broekman