word of wisdom

[sarettah]

Ok, I read this thread, I then went over to the morons hangout to check what the threads over there said. I then went and did some other investigating.

First of all, the thread at GFY seems to be saying that surfers are getting hit with an autodownload from hoopers counter, which from what I can surmise is porngraph.

So, I went over to porngraph, opened an account and grabbed the counter code. The counter code is pretty much similar to most other counter code I have seen. It does a zero image source call to java code on the porngraph.com site, so I grabbed that code to see what I could see. In there is pretty much just standard counter stuff. Basically collects info about the user computer and sends it back to a central collecting station at porngraph. Did not see anything that was personally revealing being collected.

No where in there was there any attempt made to auto install anything on to the puter. There was no attempt to download anything out of the odinary to the puter either.

So, if people are getting stuff autoinstalled through the counter, then the counter code has been changed, or they are misinterpreting the source of the download.

I also went and sought out the isearch toolbar. Went ahead and hit the install button. It brought up the standard download prompt telling me that it wanted to install a program that was called "Free Popup Blocker". I canceled the download. It brough up a message that said that isearch was installed, but upon investigation, nothing was installed on the computer (did registry and file scans before all this and after all this and there were no changes other than normal changes). I checked the code on the download page and it appears to be deciding whether it installed or not based on how long it was between when you hit the page and now. If it is a real short time, it figures it did not install. It is a while, it figures it installed just fine...pretty lame, but not the worst schema I've seen.

So, not to be defending Hooper, but I am not finding creedence to the claims I am reading.

Anyone have anything that might enlighten me ??