ARTICLE> Spammers Create Xupiter Toolbar: Wired Cites Dangers of This Software
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- To: NetHappenings <nethappenings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:04:12 -0500
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From: "David P. Dillard" ?jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?
Sent: Wed, 7 May 2003 11:00:10 -0400 (EDT)
This article warns about toolbar software named Xupiter.
Xupiter Mongers Deal Spam, Scams
By Michelle Delio
02:00 AM Feb. 05, 2003 PT
?http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57553,00.html?
What could the most evil thing on the Internet and the Dalai Lama possibly
have in common?
Both are being used to promote websites owned by two of the Internet's
most notorious businessmen.
The Xupiter toolbar that is plaguing so many Internet users is the work of
the father and son team of Saeid and Daniel Yomtobian. Both men are
experienced in devising innovative ways to use the Internet to force their
businesses down people's throats.
According to domain-name registration records, Xupiter.com is owned by a
Hungarian company, but sources say that Xupiter's real owners are the
Yomtobians, who reside in Sherman Oaks, California.
The Yomtobians are well-known spammers who have been accused of hijacking
other peoples' mail servers to pump out solicitations for porn sites.
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Users typically stumble on this scam when they enter a URL that's slightly
incorrect and are whisked off to a gambling or sexually explicit site
rather than the well-known domain they had intended to visit.
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