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[Gnash] spyware buried in Flash movies


From: Rob Savoye
Subject: [Gnash] spyware buried in Flash movies
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:36:13 -0700
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013)

While watching some debug messages fly by, I noticed this link that luckily was failing: http://mochibot.com. It turns out Mochibot is spyware for Flash movies. When a movie is played, their server is contacted, and they track who and where the movie is being played.

Anyway, "elvis" is now clean. Sorry for not noticing earlier. I'll be careful when collecting test cases off the net... I imagine there are other companies embedding this sort of thing into Flash movies, but at least now I know to look for it.

        - rob -




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