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I found this information in the Langa Newsletter - www.langa.com - I highly recommend that you sign up. There is a free subscription and a $11 bonus subscription. Either one is well worth the cost.
A webmaster who ran a games site reports that he received complaints of banner ads popping up even though he had no such ads on his site. He then discovered this article. I urge you to read it. There are folks who track what you do, grab snapshots of forms that you fill out and report it all to some annonymous company on the web!
You can tell if you're infected by VX2 itself by searching for the "VX2.dll" file on your system. If it's there, you got bit. You can supposedly fully uninstall the software by following the instructions at http://www.vx2.cc/uninstall.html . I assume future versions of tools like Pestpatrol and Ad Aware will detect and remove VX2, but for now, it's a good idea to take a look for yourself.
Another subscribed reported this: Without authorization, eZula & Surf+ insert software into users PCs. This hidden, secret (and often self-reinstalling) software then takes selected words on your web page and turns these words into links that re-direct whoever visits you onto some other site... See this site for code to detect these. Also visit this site which will automatically check your browser for these and provide detailed explanations.
Here's how these nasty parasites work:
While surfing the Web, you will notice a thick yellow underline under selected words. Drag your mouse over them, and the words will be highlighted with a text message that provides more information. CLICK on the word and you will be directed to a new destination with additional information that is contextually related to your web surfing. That sounds OK--- almost like regular hyperlinks. But these links are not placed there by the web site creator or author; they're inserted by the software, which bases its decisions not on simple contextual relevance, but on who's *paying* to be linked. In other words, the "links" are really ads.
My comments follow:
What this means is that you visit a website that YOU chose to visit, click on a link that you believe is legitimate and are hijacked away to another site that paid Eula to do this. This is done by installing software secretly on your computer without your permission, to create these links in such a way that they look like they are part of the site you are visiting.
Imagine this: You walk into a store and ask someone who appears to be an employee for a specific department. The person directs you to a section where you make your purchases, not realizing that you are in a completely different store. Does this sound ethical to you? If you think it is, ask yourself this: why then are they doing this secretly? Why aren't they telling you, "Our software will look at what you want and direct you to the places that match your interest, even if this is not the site you chose to visit"? This kind of marketing is worse than spam, it's worse than pop ups and I think Fred Langa's description fits best: scumware.
A javascript on this page just ran a check of your system for spyware. If you saw no warnings, then no spyware was found. However, this script can not find them all. Read this page for more details on protecting your system at no cost. Note: just as a javascript was used to check your page, a malicious site could have used one to implant spyware on your PC.