Smiley central

[Guest]

Smilely central is NOT spyware it is part of fun web products. See:

http://www.funwebproducts.com/?referer=003&spu=0

We want to assure you that Fun Web Products does not "spider" websites, nor
does it contain malicious software. It is simply an extremely popular webtool
that continues to grow in popularity.

For more about Fun Web Products - and our MyWebSearch toolbar - please see
the information below. If you still have any concerns about Fun Web Products
software or users accessing your site, please click here to contact us. We
welcome any comments you may have about our free service.

Fun Web Products:

Does NOT "spider" websites
Does NOT contain any malicious software
Does NOT collect any personal information
Does NOT monitor the sites visited
Does NOT monitor behavior on the Internet
Does NOT log or track keystrokes
Does NOT "hijack" home pages
Does NOT serve or facilitate ads
Why some spyware services may mistake Fun Web Products and its MyWebSearch
Toolbar for "Spyware"

Spyware detection is an emerging online product category with a lack of a
single standard. As a result, there is a substantial amount of confusion and
misinformation on the Web about how spyware detection software works and what
“spyware†actually means. This lack of a single standard often results in
legitimate software being classified as spyware.

There are currently dozens of spyware detection companies in the market,
ranging from substantive corporations to one-person operations. And new
offshore and mom-and-pop companies are emerging all the time. As a result,
it is often difficult to know which companies may be mis-classifying our
software and equally difficult to find them and have them correct their
classification error.

Fun Web Products are neither adware nor spyware and we are aggressively
working with any companies who may have mis-classified our products as such.
In virtually all instances, this classification has already been reversed.

This is from out of the horse's mouth. See:

http://help.funwebproducts.com/webmaster.html

 

[Andre Da Costa]

The add it as an exception, open Control Panel > Windows Firewall >
(Exceptions) tab > Add Program, and scroll down until you find it.

Andre

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

....and George Bush *still* insists Iraq had weapons of mass destruction ;-)

| Smilely central is NOT spyware it is part of fun web products. See:
|
| http://www.funwebproducts.com/?referer=003&spu=0
|
| We want to assure you that Fun Web Products does not "spider" websites,
nor
| does it contain malicious software. It is simply an extremely popular
webtool
| that continues to grow in popularity.
|
| For more about Fun Web Products - and our MyWebSearch toolbar - please see
| the information below. If you still have any concerns about Fun Web
Products
| software or users accessing your site, please click here to contact us. We
| welcome any comments you may have about our free service.
|
| Fun Web Products:
|
| Does NOT "spider" websites
| Does NOT contain any malicious software
| Does NOT collect any personal information
| Does NOT monitor the sites visited
| Does NOT monitor behavior on the Internet
| Does NOT log or track keystrokes
| Does NOT "hijack" home pages
| Does NOT serve or facilitate ads
| Why some spyware services may mistake Fun Web Products and its MyWebSearch
| Toolbar for "Spyware"
|
| Spyware detection is an emerging online product category with a lack of a
| single standard. As a result, there is a substantial amount of confusion
and
| misinformation on the Web about how spyware detection software works and
what
| "spyware" actually means. This lack of a single standard often results in
| legitimate software being classified as spyware.
|
| There are currently dozens of spyware detection companies in the market,
| ranging from substantive corporations to one-person operations. And new
| offshore and mom-and-pop companies are emerging all the time. As a
result,
| it is often difficult to know which companies may be mis-classifying our
| software and equally difficult to find them and have them correct their
| classification error.
|
| Fun Web Products are neither adware nor spyware and we are aggressively
| working with any companies who may have mis-classified our products as
such.
| In virtually all instances, this classification has already been reversed.
|
| This is from out of the horse's mouth. See:
|
| http://help.funwebproducts.com/webmaster.html
|
|
|
| --
| Earendil
|
|
|
|
| --
| Earendil

 

[David H. Lipman]

Ok, its it is highly intrusive Crapware, sh!tware, malware, scumware -- A rose by any other
name....

If I find this on *any* PC on my LAN, the user's manager will be notified for installing
banned software.

Now get lost !

Dave



| Smilely central is NOT spyware it is part of fun web products. See:
|
| http://www.funwebproducts.com/?referer=003&spu=0
|
| We want to assure you that Fun Web Products does not "spider" websites, nor
| does it contain malicious software. It is simply an extremely popular webtool
| that continues to grow in popularity.
|
| For more about Fun Web Products - and our MyWebSearch toolbar - please see
| the information below. If you still have any concerns about Fun Web Products
| software or users accessing your site, please click here to contact us. We
| welcome any comments you may have about our free service.
|
| Fun Web Products:
|
| Does NOT "spider" websites
| Does NOT contain any malicious software
| Does NOT collect any personal information
| Does NOT monitor the sites visited
| Does NOT monitor behavior on the Internet
| Does NOT log or track keystrokes
| Does NOT "hijack" home pages
| Does NOT serve or facilitate ads
| Why some spyware services may mistake Fun Web Products and its MyWebSearch
| Toolbar for "Spyware"
|
| Spyware detection is an emerging online product category with a lack of a
| single standard. As a result, there is a substantial amount of confusion and
| misinformation on the Web about how spyware detection software works and what
| "spyware" actually means. This lack of a single standard often results in
| legitimate software being classified as spyware.
|
| There are currently dozens of spyware detection companies in the market,
| ranging from substantive corporations to one-person operations. And new
| offshore and mom-and-pop companies are emerging all the time. As a result,
| it is often difficult to know which companies may be mis-classifying our
| software and equally difficult to find them and have them correct their
| classification error.
|
| Fun Web Products are neither adware nor spyware and we are aggressively
| working with any companies who may have mis-classified our products as such.
| In virtually all instances, this classification has already been reversed.
|
| This is from out of the horse's mouth. See:
|
| http://help.funwebproducts.com/webmaster.html
|
|
|
| --
| Earendil
|
|
|
|
| --
| Earendil

 

[Bryan Martin]

Ah garbage. This is the same garbage that does popup advertising. I spent
about an hour attempting to remove this crap from a PC the other day. To
remove it attempted to take you to the "horses mouth" for another download
that removed it. However in this case nether that would work, nor would the
add remove programs method work. I had to go to a separate pc, download the
uninstaller, copy to disk and run from infected pc. Im sorry but anything
that attempts to advert a normal remove request should be considered viral
and the writers should be shot on site. Hopefully though, now that the
government is paying attention it wont be long before horses like you put
down. Do horses like you actually think people enjoy popup advertising? I
have never met anyone who recommended any such program as yours because of
great popup advertising.

 

[Guest]

Smilely central is NOT spyware it is part of fun web products.

May we call it JUNKWARE?

 

[Guest]

Just goto www.spywareinfo.com a free utility to detect and remove spyware. It
removed the funwebproducts/smiley central and even gator.


Type www.spywareinfo.com in your address line of IE.
Scroll down till you see online scanner and click it
It will download a active-x program called Xscan.
Let it run and it may require a reboot after the scan and clean has completed.

Timothy F. Frazier, Sr., MCP, A+

 

[Malke]

May we call it JUNKWARE?

Well, since FunWeb Products are the producers of the extremely nasty
WinTools spyware, I wouldn't want anything they made on one of my
machines.

Malke

 

[wayne]

spyware to me! a friend installed it and started getting all kinds of junk
mail related to what they were browsing for, sounds like spyware to me!

Wayne

 

[MowGreen [MVP]]

X-WBNR-Posting-Host: 66.43.16.199

X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000

OrgName: Myfamily.com Inc.
OrgID: MYFAMI-1
Address: 360 W. 4800 N.
City: Provo
StateProv: UT
PostalCode: 84604
Country: US
NetRange: 66.43.16.0 - 66.43.31.255
CIDR: 66.43.16.0/20
NetName: MYFAMILY
NetHandle: NET-66-43-16-0-1
Parent: NET-66-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: NS1.MYFAMILY.NET
NameServer: NS2.MYFAMILY.NET
Comment:
Comment:
RegDate: 2003-01-14
Updated: 2004-01-29
TechHandle: DOMRE-ARIN
TechName: Domreg
TechPhone: 1-801-705-7000
TechEmail: (e-mail address removed)

Maybe we'll ring up your ISP .. oh wait, you're using a WEB-BASED
newsreader to spam ? Thought you were anonymous, eh ?

Funny > There are currently dozens of spyware detection companies in
the market,

ranging from substantive corporations to one-person operations. And new
offshore and mom-and-pop companies are emerging all the time

They're extortionists and thugs like your company is. These
so-called "spyware" programs or online "scanners" inject massive
amounts of crud onto unsuspecting and innocent folk's systems and
then coerce them to buy their "software" ... Like your "product" does.

Sue me, go ahead ... I'd love it.


MowGreen [MVP]
===============
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
===============

 

[Malke]

X-WBNR-Posting-Host: 66.43.16.199

X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000

OrgName: Myfamily.com Inc.
OrgID: MYFAMI-1
Address: 360 W. 4800 N.
City: Provo
StateProv: UT
PostalCode: 84604
Country: US
NetRange: 66.43.16.0 - 66.43.31.255
CIDR: 66.43.16.0/20
NetName: MYFAMILY
NetHandle: NET-66-43-16-0-1
Parent: NET-66-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: NS1.MYFAMILY.NET
NameServer: NS2.MYFAMILY.NET
Comment:
Comment:
RegDate: 2003-01-14
Updated: 2004-01-29
TechHandle: DOMRE-ARIN
TechName: Domreg
TechPhone: 1-801-705-7000
TechEmail: (e-mail address removed)

Maybe we'll ring up your ISP .. oh wait, you're using a WEB-BASED
newsreader to spam ? Thought you were anonymous, eh ?

Funny > There are currently dozens of spyware detection companies in
the market,

They're extortionists and thugs like your company is. These
so-called "spyware" programs or online "scanners" inject massive
amounts of crud onto unsuspecting and innocent folk's systems and
then coerce them to buy their "software" ... Like your "product"
does.

Sue me, go ahead ... I'd love it.


MowGreen [MVP]
===============
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
===============

(snip massive spam/cr*p)

Go Mow! Case in point - A client called me yesterday. I had just cleaned
up her machine (which was a mess) a little while ago and it was
pristine. Now she was getting popups again like crazy. When I asked her
what changed, she told me nothing EXCEPT she had just gotten those
"cute little things" from Smiley Central. And now she's got the malware
toolbars and a load of more garbage. Cause and effect, baby!

Malke