On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, 7:27:47 AM, Bill Blinn Technology Editor wrote:
BBTE> "This program will steal your passwords and people will be able to BBTE> see all your personal information. I contacted the government to BBTE> investigate this company I would stay clear of this by all means." Hmmmmm...what government? It's a Chinese company iirc...I don't think the Chinese gov't is terribly concerned about personal privacy ;-) BBTE> and this BBTE> "BEWARE!!! Secretly sends your password to malicious hackers!" BBTE> This program is not what it seems. My technical software analysis BBTE> team has debugged the program and found it to be full of holes and BBTE> security breaches. It doesn't just install spyware on your system. BBTE> It also sends your password to most likely malicious hackers. Then BBTE> a few months when you least suspect, your email account is taken BBTE> over and un-usable. This program also appears to send your email BBTE> to multiple advertising companies, hence making you put up with BBTE> more and more ads in your inbox each day. There have been a number BBTE> of programs that are silimar to this one, it's only a matter of BBTE> time before they can be stopped!" Interesting. I've been using Foxmail for a couple of years now. I've not had any problems with security, nobody has hacked my account, none of my email accounts has been taken over, & I only get spam on the accounts that already got spam before I used Foxmail, & I don't get any more spam on those accounts than I already did. BBTE> There were a few positive responses, but many were negative and BBTE> warned of security problems. Enough to scare me away! Hmmmm...I just had a look at the negative reviews. There were several which said the same thing, word-for-word, but used different names, which makes me think someone's got an axe to grind <G>. Then there's the person who says it wouldn't work with Tiny Firewall (it does for me) so he/she had to disable the firewall to send/receive mail (bit of a silly thing to do really...). Then there's the one that says you can't see received html...yes, you can, you just click the html symbol at the top right of the preview pane. Or the one who says he prefers Incredimail. Or the one who complains that when he clicks on an email address on a webpage, it starts Foxmail when he wants to use something else... My personal favourite, though, is the one which says: "Plain fact is there is nothing to equal OE. If only my OE would work" ROFL! -- Deborah ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
