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"HH" <hahunt42@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Did you run a spyware detection utility BEFORE you connected to the Internet
the first time?
HH
I saw these files being installed from the recovery disks. I have dealt
with this with all of HP's products.
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/wildtangent/index.phtml
I uninstalled most of the games that involve the Wild Tangent driver.
These games were installed during setup, thirty-day "tryout" games. This is
blatant false advertisement of disk space. Another I see installed from the
Compaq disks (and too many other products) is BackWeb Client - though not
considered "so bad" by some, it also as its spyware abilities.
I have connected this machine to the internet to install remaining
Windows Updates just a short time ago *after* installing updates from my
customer's Security Update Cd from microsoft. After I installed and updated
an av program.
Before reinstall I found "bad block" errors in event viewer. After
runnning extensive hard disk tests, I discovered hard drive failure . On a
two-year old machine.
But the real kicker here was when I tried to delete the "Compaq Hot
Deals" icon. And lo, a dialogue window immediately popped up from the
antivirus program I installed; seems "trojan downloader.presario.A" had been
detected in C:\windows\system32\mscmtsrvc.exe.- haaa! Because I clicked on
this icon.
According to Compaq Support -
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&docname=bpb11751
seems "msCMTSrvc.exe is an application that was installed on the computer by
Compaq called the Content Monitoring Tool Service (CMTS). The Compaq Offer
Zone, displayed on the desktop as the Hot Deals icon, uses the CMTS to
update the computer when new merchandise is available for purchase by the
user. This application will not harm the computer: CMTS will attempt to
contact the Offer Zone every 10 minutes. If a firewall is installed on the
computer, this process may appear to be malicious. The firewall may warn the
user that the computer is under attack." Personally, I do not want *anyone*
else connecting to the internet every 10 minutes using up my bandwidth. The
consumer should not have to deal with these problems, especially after a
so-called clean install.
I have in sympathy to my customers quite often become quite angry with
HP/Compaq, whatever, with their misleading practices. This is very wrong. If
it didn't seem such a crime was being committed here to the consumer, I
would fall over laughing. but this time it is personal. This is my
brother's machine. I am dreading telling him the status of his hard drive.
And this machine has been maintained correctly.
I repeat. I would not own a Compaq or other hp product. But then,
custom is best always.
Roxanne
"Roxanne" <roxanne@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> How does compaq justify Wild Tangent/ aka Spyware (among others) in their
> products? Just wondering. Because this is just one reason I would not own
> one. Or anything other hp product.
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> RX
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