Spyware, In a Galaxy Near You

Its seems spyware is in all our favorite sharing program and this time Audio Galaxy is having a seriuoud trojan like spyware in his program.

The latest scandal over so-called spyware involves a mysterious and particularly insidious program that tracks your surfing, delivers pop-up ads and could even collect your credit card information.

You may not have heard of the VX2 Corporation, but if you've downloaded Audio Galaxy lately, VX2 may know a lot about you.

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VX2's spyware program comes bundled with other software. Audio Galaxy, a company that makes Napster-style file-sharing software, delivered it for a short time last fall, but says it no longer does so.

The VX2 program is currently bundled with a free screensaver program from Aadcom, an Internet advertising company, and may be included in other popular file-sharing programs.

Like other spyware, the program, once installed, tracks which websites the user visits, and reports the information back to the company's servers to build a user profile. It also serves pop-up ads so they appear to be coming from websites that don't actually serve the ads.

But that's not all it does. According to VX2's own privacy policy, "VX2's software also collects some information from online forms that you fill out."

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Source: Wired

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