NewDotNet warning

[Paul]

what does it do thats so wrong? i demand an answer you american pigs!

[Luciano U. Werner]

Paul, be polite, like this:<br>"Could please anyone explain how these programs damage ActiveSync?"<br><br>Even if you guys don't want to explain to Paul (because he was rude), could you explain it to me? I didn't understand how it would cause problems.

[RICoder]

In fairness, I don't really know.  But it's there without my concent or knowlege.  That's bad.<br><br>Also, the suggestion that it may damage network connectivity if you just delete the .dll indicates something intrusive to me.<br><br>Paul, you are a very naughty monkey.

[Dan East]

Jaybot asked me if I knew about a newdotnet.dll, because it had been causing exceptions on his PC. I started looking into it at that time. In trying to uninstall new.net software it messed up his ActiveSync connection. My PC has been very unstable of late, and at this point I cannot blame new.net for my problems, but if my PC is stable now that I removed it, then was obviously the culprit.<br>The simple fact of the matter is that people do not need additional software installed on their machine that performs low-level modifications to their system, that inevitably cause performance degradation due to the additional overhead - all without asking the user for permission or even notifying them. Did you know that their software could send you to some other site other than the real one? For example, if you entered cnn.com, their software could direct your PC to any other site of their choosing. That's what their software does - directs your PC to a server when you enter in one of their bogus domain names. In the near future, when the internet consortium approves those new domain extensions, there will be terrible problems because of the overlapping of the premature, unauthorized new.net names (each of which they made money off of), with the real, DNS-supported names.<br>They could also redirect your PC to some other site if a site were down, or didn't exist. At this time, it doesn't appear they are doing anything malicious. They are simply trying to be as covert as possible at this phase.<br><br>However, since you are so open to others taking control of your computer, I'll think up some way I can make a profit by running software on your PC without your knowing.<br><br>Dan East

[Paul]

blimey, so they could make a fake site and redirect you there to get passwords and stuff?

[Dan East]

Yep. Unless you have a habit of keeping track of website IP addresses and comparing them each time you visit the site, you would never know.<br><br>Dan East

[Luciano U. Werner]

Bastards.