[AT] Do you have HotBar on your computer?

[CEE VILL]

Happy Sunday to you Art.  I do not have HotBar, but I am thinking it is a 
nice gesture for you to pass this info along for those interested.  Thanks. 
Next time it may be something I do use.

Charlie V.


>From: "Arthur Southwell" <asouth at strato.net>
>Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>To: "ATIS-SEL" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>CC: Antique Tractor List <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: [AT] Do you have HotBar on your computer?
>Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 13:09:52 -0400
>
>Hello gang,
>
>A few months back, maybe as long as 9 months or more, someone sent me 
>several email messages with a URL at the bottom advertising a free utility 
>called HOTBAR. It was suppose to have wonderful things in it and smiley 
>faces and so on.
>
>(I know there are some computer Gurus out there who already know this, but 
>there are a lot more users out there that don't!)
>
>Well, I finally downloaded HOTBAR. I wasn't totally unhappy with it so I 
>let it remain on my IE main page. Little did I realize it had spyware 
>imbedded in it. It uses Data Miner to glean information from your hard 
>drive and send it to entities that use the info for goodness knows what.
>
>There was an article in toady's newspaper that talked able how "SpyWare" 
>can and will slow down your computer operation. I had a spy ware 
>locator/killer downloaded, "ad-aware", but hadn't installed it. I installed 
>"ad-aware" free version this morning and it found 138 spyware items and 130 
>+ or - were HotBar using Data Miner. I set ad-aware to work deleting the 
>spyware items and my computer, which was running so slow I was about to 
>trash it, livened right up. I have since uninstalled HotBar.
>
>The point being, if your computer is running slower than it should, it may 
>be choked up with spyware inquiries. If you're running HotBar, I'm sure it 
>is and your are freely issuing personal data to the internet.
>
>Do with this information what you will. I'm just passing along an 
>experience of mine.
>
>Have a good one,
>Arthur
>
>
>
>Arthur Southwell
>Arthur Southwell Rebuilding
>Arcadia, Florida 34266  U.S.A.
>asouth at strato.net
>
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