This isn't exactly PocketPC related (besides the fact that it can ultimately damage your ActiveSync connection), but Anything Discussion is too nebulous for a "real" post.
<br><br>Jaybot brought this to my attention, and I found it on my home pc as well. A company called NewDotNet is trying to usurp internet regulation by creating and selling its own suite of domain names, such as .free, .shop and .xxx. They can get by with this, and bypass normal internet Domain Name Servers, by installing custom software on your PC that takes over some of the networking functionality. So, how do they get their software installed on a large number of PCs? Through "foistware", or the bundling and installation of unrelated software with some other product. Thus when you install some program, it installs the NewDotNet software, without asking your permission or even warning you.<br>The following applications participate in the NewDotNet program:<br>
Go!Zilla, BearShare, Mp3.com, iMesh, Babylon, Cydoor, Webshots and gDivx. The only one of those products I have installed is BearShare, and I have the NewDotNet curse, so that is obviously where it came from.<br>NewDotNet should include an uninstaller that can be accessed from Settings->Add/Remove programs. Jaybot said he could not find an uninstaller, and he is running Windows 2000, so it may not be available for that OS. It also appears that companies are getting a hold of GNU licensed source code, such as the Gnutella file-sharing program, and releasing their own flavor as a cheap, quick way to get software recognition. They then install their foistware app via the advertised "host" program. Of course there is a great amount of money to be made, through the selling of illicit domain names.<br><br>The easiest way to determine if this program is installed is to look in your \windows (\winnt for Windows 2000) directory for a file starting with newdotnet.<br><br>Use the uninstaller found in Add \ Remove programs to remove it, or else you can completely screw up the networking on your PC (DO NOT just delete the newdotnet DLL file). More info .<br><br>Dan East
