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Originally Posted by Florence
Reading between the lines they stopped just long enough to move in on the BT managment and started illegal trials. The legal advice must have taken all of one day to do max..
Another reading betwen the lines why they are not releasing the proof of the legal advice it is lacking on quality...
On a better note F secure still has them down as malware/spyware so BT customers could have problems if their AV is F Secure cant see them changing phorms status from malware..
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F-secure has this to say about Phorm...
The effect [of phorm] is similar to most adware solutions today — except it's installed on your ISP instead of your home computer.
It has also come to our attention that Phorm was previously known as 121Media.
121Media was the company behind the brand PeopleOnPage. PeopleOnPage is the friendly wrapper around the advertisement engine ContextPlus. Another wrapper was called Apropos, which was one of the most widespread malicious rootkits of 2005. In 2006 the heat was too much and they shut it down. DNS registrars and website content supported that they were all in it together.
Using multiple brands and not having full disclosure is common in the adware business. Renaming a company to clear a bad reputation has also been seen before.
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001420.html
I quite like the quote on the blog in one of the links posted by warescouse....
Their *demise* is like digging a hole in a landfill… some other garbage will come along and fill it up.
I aso note that
AVG classify phorm as 'lying just outside the boundaries of being classified as adware - they [phorm] adhere to the recommendations laid down by the Anti-Spyware Coalition requiring user consent. A user must accept the user licence agreement to make the service active and they allow users to unsubscribe from the service.'
User consent? What user license agreement?
I would suggest that AVG take the time to look a little closer at phorm rather than rely purely on public sources.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03...lassification/