RE: browsers and trojan-like behaviour

This appears to be the known behavior of the free version of Opera as stated at http://www.opera.com/docs/ads/. And http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/security/prefs/ads/index.dml and this topic is the second paragraph of the Opera privacy policy at http://www.opera.com/privacy/.

I don't see where they confirm that the user accepts this privacy policy or acknowledges that the user knows of the Ad window and how it works. The acknowldegement could come during the installation of course, but who reads those silly licenses anyway?

The number of popups and junk that appear on the SimTel download page should probably lead one to believe that there is Spyware close at hand.

As Opera.com states it is easy to eliminate this behavior, for only $39.00, but does that eliminate the communication or just reduce it?

Tim Heagarty CISSP, MCSE
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bogdan Hamciuc [mailto:hb@p16.pub.ro]
> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 6:48 AM
> To: webappsec@securityfocus.com
> Subject: browsers and trojan-like behaviour
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have always been aware that certain applications might
Received on Sun Apr 6 15:13:38 2003