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Comet Cursor is NOT innocuous. It's spy ware. It tracks your goings and
comings on the web and sends the results back to the publisher.
Unless you like giving out this kind of information, I'd remove it ASAP.
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Mike
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Mike Faunce
mike at faunce dot com
"Ray Kremer" <raykremer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:GF9LBJ.Ms3@lugnet.com...
> A Plug-in is a small program that attaches itself to your internet browser
> program in order to view certain on-line content. Shockwave and • Realplayer are
> two you may be more familiar with. I've never had a plug-in install • without
> asking, but I use Netscape. Every time I've ever gone to a comet
> cursor-enabled page on a browser that didn't have it installed I got a
> little pop-up window asking me if I wanted the plug-in. Maybe MSIE has a
> setting that tells them to install automatically. If that's the case, • your
> beef is with Microsoft, not the webpage owner.
>
> Anyway, the comet cursor plug in changes the way the mouse cursor looks • while
> you are on webpages that make use of it. If you leave the webpage or even
> switch to a different program it goes back to normal. It's quite • harmless, I
> use it on several of my own websites. The thing in the system tray (where • the
> clock is) can be told to go away and not come back if you right-click it • and go
> into its preferences.
>
> Why it installed to 15 computers by viewing the webpage from one of them • is
> beyond me. Even so, I think you were a little harsh before. All those • CAPS
> and a threat of reporting his site? I hope he didn't remove entirely them • just
> because of you.
>
> If anybody's curious, it comes from here:
> http://cometzone.cometsystems.com/
>
> In lugnet.general, Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D. writes:
> > It was My Comet Cursor. I don't know what a browser plugin is. All I • do
> > know is it installed without even a notice. I realized it after our • cursor
> > changed and I saw a new thing next to the time on the computer. I was • under
> > the impression ALL software had to ask first. I could be wrong. Ken's the
> > computer person not me, and he's still in a semi-unconscious state in the
> > hospital.
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