[access-uk] Re: New Zoomtest
- From: "Peter Logue" <peterlogue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:04:05 -0400
Hi Ray,
AISquared already have my email address, my snail mail address, my
visa card, and whatever it takes to buy and register their product. Recently,
by email of all things, they announced that they have version Beta 9
available for download. So I went to the site and was not happy to find that
I needed an AISquared account, to download the product.
Also now, every page offers you the chance to open an AISquared account. I
think it's a bit silly. Personally I want as few usernames and passwords as
possible in this internet world.
I'm just thinking of what a pain in the butt it would be if you required a
username and password for every store you entered in the high street.
Peter
Peter
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: New Zoomtest
Well I guess it is a bit anoying to have to go through form filling to
download trial software, but I would exspect at the least to submit an email
address. There is though another issue that concerns me; namely whether
Zoomtext is installing spyware, or adware when you install their product.
Before anyone accuses me of scaremungering I am very well aware that some bot
software does actually have legit uses.
I bring this up merely because an aid I downloaded recently, namely Highjack
This' identifyes zoomtext using a program to log web activity etc. I could
be more specifiic if I took another look.
Given the way in which more and more spyware is integrating itself into other
processes in order to make it very hard to get rid of, I suppose it is just
possible some third party nasty is riding on Zoomtext, but I simply do not
know.
So the question is: Does Zoomtext install spyware, or whatever it is?
I may post another message on what has prompted this reflection on spyware
and Zoomtext, which was getting rid of Searchsquire, a known search hijacker
and web activity logger.
Ray
Personal emails: Email me at
mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Logue" <peterlogue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hi all,
> I was pleased to read of the new Zoomtext that is now available in beta. I
> went to the AISquared website to download a beta copy and give it a try. I
> was not pleased however to find out that I needed a AISquared username and
> password to access the site and download my beta version of the new
product.
> Needless to say I did not do so. I wrote to the company voicing my
> disapproval, and no doubt they will tell me that having a username and
> password on their site will only add to improved service and increased
> security. Sometimes guys, aren't they going a little too far. Imagine how
> you'd feel if you had to have a username and password for your local
> Woolworth, and had to be subjected to a body search in the process of
> entering the store. Sure it all adds to security. But at what cost to
> pleasure and convience , convience? um. That's another way of saying
> convenience.
>
> Peter, who's totally pissed off because his Jaws wont' register and FS
don't
> seem to answer his emails requesting a registration authority.
> And who's thinking of window eyes very serously.
>
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