Extremly Serious Security Risk

A884126 · Sep 7, 2004

Hi

I got this info from another forum:

BE EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS regarding the following programs producedby the company www.palsol.com.

The owner now has plans to deliberately infect your computers.

PAL Spyware Remover
(Scans and Removes Adware/Spyware)
PAL Emergency Response
(Powerful Antivirus Software)
PAL Computer Surveillance System
(Monitor any PC from Anywhere)!
PAL PC Spy
(Powerful PC Monitoring and Surveillance)
Privacy Tools 2004

This post concerns the owner of a British company that produces a "PAL Spyware Remover" called Privacy Tools 2004 , including the above named programs.

From another security forum, A user posted the following:downloaded, installed, updated, and tested Privacy Tools 2004 on his system.
"Crap - Stay away"
Scanned my system with Ad-aware, Webroot Spy Sweeper, Spyware Doctor and Spybot S&D and everything was clean. Installed this tool and it found 2 programs and 534 registry keys. On looking at the keys I realized if someone would actually remove those, his system would suffer badly. It even pointed to Outpost as spyware.

To cut this down in size somw what I leave the following:

The beta identified completely innocent files for the following applications as "spyware" or "malware" of some sort,SpywareBlaster,Advanced Replacer, amongst others.

2) The beta identified a number of completely innocent Registry keys as malware-related in some way, including keys for:

* AdShield
* SpywareGuard
* Internet Explorer (Radio Bar)
* FlashGet
* Neotrace

All of these Registry keys are completely innocent -- even the FlashGet keys, which are from the "for-pay"/non-adware version of FlashGet.

The beta identified hundreds of "ActiveX Compatibility" keys as malware-related. In fact, those keys (and the associated DWORD:00000400 values) were set by either SpywareBlaster or Spybot S&D to block the installation of known spyware-related ActiveX controls. This method of setting the kill-bit against ActiveX controls is a well-known means for protecting users from spyware installations through Internet Explorer, and has been in use for several years now in the anti-spyware scene

While you've been bragging to the world about your worthless, broken anti-spyware utility and selling it to unsuspecting users, condescending to the volunteers here at Spyware Warrior and refusing to answer their perfectly legitimate questions, as well as threatening me and Spyware Warrior with frivolous lawsuits, these volunteers have actually been doing the thankless job of providing real help to real victims, and all for free. That's a hell of a lot more than you can claim.

At this point Ashley the 22-year old owner became so frustrated with other member's criticism of PT 2004 that he publicly announced his plans to have his developers write and distribute spyware:

"And to be honest i'm even thinking of having some programmers write me some spyware. Yep, actual spyware to infect ppls machines. Why? Cus you all suck. I'm trying to work with you but you couldnt give a sh1t. So why try and work with the anti-spyware community when there only against you? You guys are against me so much that i'm going to start distributing spyware myself, its not hard. UNDETECTABLE stuff too. To be honest theres probably more money in this then the actual spyware removal."
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