FunWebProducts is Spyware

September 2, 2007 on 3:29 am | In General Nonsense | Write a Comment

But you didn’t get it from me, I promise.

I happened to be looking at my logs admiring all the visits from my friends at disney.com when I noticed this odd user-agent:

proxy-ce14.disney.com - - [01/Sep/2007:18:21:34 -0400] “GET /gallery/d/4832-2/100_1122.JPG HTTP/1.0″ 200 48523 “http://www.proteinspill.com/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; FunWebProducts; InfoPath.1)”

Apparently with all the surfing you do on Company time, you’ve infected your computer! Here’s more information on the spyware and how to remove it.

Amongst other things FunWebProducts may change your default search engine to MyWebSearch, and it may install a toolbar. You get a “Search Assistant” for when you mistype a URL. You can install it by “upgrading” your smileys in various messengers, cursors for windows, screensavers etc.

Good luck! Oh, and don’t get caught reading this blog on a Company computer. It might be considered Inappropriate Behavior and grounds for dismissal.

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