[plug] Dubious message

[Kenworthy Family]

avoid neoplanet like the plague - I mistakenly thought that it was neotrace and
loaded from the magazine cdrom into windows - took ages to get out of the system
(not sure if its all gone still) and is loaded with adds.  Looked like an
application to help with online shopping (i.e., a trap) in the few seconds it took
to decide it wasnt what I thought - and some time to manualy remove as the windows
remove utilities did not work (as it ran and gave all the right responses, but didnt
remove anything, I think it may have been on purpose.)

BillK


Bret Busby wrote:

> I received a message this afternoon, that was sent direct to me, as a reply to a
> thread on the mailing list.
>
> The message used the pseudonym "radioman", and told me to download Neoplanet
> from neoplanet.com .
>
> That was all the message said, with no indication of who the sender is, or why I
> should do it.
>
> I went to the web site, and found that the application is not available for
> Linux.
>
> Does anyone know who this person is, or what is going on?
>
> I would not usually publish any message sent to me off the mailing list, by a
> person on the mailing list, without their permission, but I would expect such a
> message to indicate the name of the sender, rather than an anonymous message,
> and this is weird.
>
> Bret Busby
> .................
> Subject:          re: Re: [plug] System security
>     Date:          03 Sep 99 17:00:47 +1000
>    From:          Radioman <radioman at tasman.net.au>
>      To:          Bret Busby <bret at clearsol.iinet.net.au>
>
> Download Neoplanet at http://www.neoplanet.com
>
> ................................